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Harnessing Wicked Problems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships [PDF]
Journal of Business Ethics, 2018 Despite the burgeoning literature on the governance and impact of cross-sector partnerships in the past two decades, the debate on how and when these collaborative arrangements address globally relevant problems and contribute to systemic change ...
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Are wicked problems really so wicked? Perceptions of policy problems
Policy & Society, 2019 The concept of wicked problems has become widely used in policy analysis. The popularity of the concept has led to its overuse, and has produced significant conceptual stretching. This paper investigates the extent to which this stretching has led to the
B. Guy Peters, Matthew Tarpey
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Forty years of wicked problems literature: forging closer links to policy studies
Policy & Society, 2019 Rittel and Webber boldly challenged the conventional assumption that ‘scientific’ approaches to social policy and planning provide the most reliable guidance for practitioners and researchers who are addressing complex, and contested, social problems ...
Brian W. Head
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Problematizing ‘wickedness’: a critique of the wicked problems concept, from philosophy to practice
Policy & Society, 2019 The concept of ‘wicked problems’ is a major current in the fields of policy analysis and planning. However, the basis of the concept has been insufficiently examined. This re-examination of its conceptual basis explains the origins of the limitations and
Nick Turnbull, Robert Hoppe
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A small wins framework to overcome the evaluation paradox of governing wicked problems
Policy & Society, 2019 The evaluation of policy strategies to tackle wicked policy problems inevitably involves a paradox of trying to judge solutions for problems that have no solutions and for which additional efforts might increase the chances of finding better responses ...
Catrien J.A.M. Termeer, Art Dewulf
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Wicked Problems in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review
SAGE Open, 2021 The theory of wicked problems, originating from Western academic discussion, has evolved since the 2000s toward a universal diagnostic of societal challenges. In this article, we employ a systematic literature review to investigate the application of the
Ville-Pekka Niskanen +2 more
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Training wicked scientists for a world of wicked problems
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 Humanity faces a number of wicked problems, from global climate change and the coronavirus pandemic to systemic racism and widening economic inequality.
Nicholas C. Kawa +13 more
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Defining wicked problems for public policy: The case of Mexico’s disappearances
Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas, 2020 Wicked problem literature is increasingly popular, but empirical studies about its relation to public policy are scarce. Additionally, there is no consensus on the convenience of Public Administration as policy makers addressing wicked problems by ...
Monica Naime
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International Journal of Sustainable Energy, 2023 We shed light on wicked problems in the German energy transition. Our methods consist of a multiple-case study and multi-criteria analysis, utilising the wicked problems theoretical framework introduced by Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber [1973.
Juliane Biehl +11 more
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