Costales, Emilio ORCID: 0000-0003-1595-5531 and Zeyen, Anica (2022) Chapter 6. The sustainable development goals, complexity, and errors of the third kind. In: Costales, Emilio ORCID: 0000-0003-1595-5531 and Zeyen, Anica, (eds.) Social Entrepreneurship and Grand Challenges: Navigating Layers of Disruption from COVID-19 and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan - Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 99-116. ISBN 978-3031074509; 978-3031074493 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07450-9_6)

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Abstract

As we pursue grand challenges, solutions to wicked problems continue to be elusive. As described in Chap. 1, wicked problems cannot be solved through traditional processes because they are unclear and complex in nature. As we seek to find solutions, how we define and conceptualize societal problems contributes to our ability to solve them and meet grand challenges. This chapter introduces the concept of type III errors as a lens for further analyzing the role of social entrepreneurship for meeting grand challenges. We take a deep dive into some of the wicked problems obfuscating our achievement of SDGs 1, 8 and 13, and how they practically relate to grand challenges. In doing so, we re-conceptualize them through the lens of multi-layered disruption and ambivalence to identify inflection points where errors of the third kind emerge, how they might be avoided or learned from, and social entrepreneurship’s role in this process. In short, we end our journey with an academic plea for changing the world through individual- level changes.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Type III errors, wicked problems, grand challenges, sustainable development goals
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Greenwich Business School Greenwich Business School > Executive Business Centre Greenwich Business School > School of Business, Operations and Strategy
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2024 14:56
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48430

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