Mr Morteza Khojastehpour

Research student

Grand Challenges

Cross-sector Social Partnership (CSSP)

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Thesis

Cross-sector Social Partnerships (CSSPs) to Address Grand Challenges: Processes and Mechanisms

Due to the complexity of grand challenges such as poverty, health and well-being, climate change etc. and its existence in various geographical areas around the world, tackling them needs great efforts. However, I believe that university scholars, in some cases, have not reached a consensus on which type of partnership, among firm-NPO, firm-government or public-private and firm-NPO-government or multi-stakeholder partnership, is the most promising way to address specific grand challenges. This question arises due to the fact that, as Bansal, Kim and Wood (2018) claim, large scale challenges such as climate change requires “broad attentional extent” whereas small scale and potentially locally addressed challenges related to local variations in poverty requires “fine attentional grain” (P. 217).

My first phase of PhD thesis tries to address this question via the use of a Delphi study to collect data from university scholars.

Funding sources

Cardiff Business School (CARBS) PhD Scholarship 2023

I graduated from the Industrial Management Institute, Mashhad, Iran in 2010. Since then, I have been engaged in encouraging various stakeholders to preserve their environment. I am passionate about advancing solutions to challenging problems such as climate change and sustainable natural resource utilization. My previous research experience and ourputs (one in Journal of Business Research and the other in European Business Review) have positioned me to address these issues from a new point of view.

Before joining Cardiff, I had received PhD scholarship (fee + stipend) from Otago Business School, New Zealand in 2020 and PhD scholarship (fee + stipend) from Monash Business School, Australia in 2023.