This paper aims to explore the global scaling of game-changer business models to tackle grand challenges. It specifically investigates the drivers, enablers, business model components, and sustainability outcomes to identify facilitators (or challenges) for their global scaling and ability to tackle grand challenges. Through the analysis of qualitative data from two cases, we shed light on the specific context within the agri-food industry. In this way, we contribute to the existing literature on the intersection between global scaling and sustainable business model innovation. We call upon the actions of policymakers and business leaders to provide financial support and promote the global scaling of these models.

This article examines rural communities' interpretations and strategies for grand societal challenges like poverty and climate change. The study is limited to developing countries. While previous literature has assessed the market potential of rural populations in an entrepreneurial context, this study highlights the critical role that rural communities play in addressing grand societal challenges. Rural communities act as producers and entrepreneurs by relying on agriculture for their livelihoods and showing a strong will to address these challenges. However, their effort to harness their potential to secure their livelihood and tackle social and environmental challenges face market barriers such as reaching buyers from multinational food retail chains and export markets. Using sensemaking as a theoretical lens, we show how rural communities interpret grand societal challenges such as poverty and climate change. Focus group interviews in five communities with a total sample of 235 participants in northern Zambia. This study contributes to understanding grand societal challenges from the perspective of rural populations and calls for their actions to be integrated into global efforts.

Digitalization is a trend that changes the internal and external pressures of multinationals as they design or evolve their organizational model. Despite the issue of the appropriate organizational model being core to managing the multinational, the new organizational models that MNEs adopt to embrace digitalization remain to be explored. To understand the organizational models of the MNE in the digital world, we are conducting theory-building case studies of US multinationals. Our preliminary analysis reveals the global organization model with distinct implications for strategic capabilities, cross-border alignment, knowledge creation and sharing, as well as cross-border managers, compared to the transnational model. This study contributes to international business by developing knowledge on the organizing implications for multinationals as they leverage digitalization.

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Entrepreneurship is the major source of wealth to every society and hence, the engine that drives innovation, creates new product, job opportunities and services. A country will remain economically disadvantaged if the potentials of entrepreneurship to drive economic growth are not explored. This study assessed Entrepreneurship and Economic Development of SMES in Enugu State, Nigeria. The precise goals were to identify the nature of relationship between Job creation and economic growth of SMEs in Enugu State and to ascertain the degree of relationship that exists between business ownership and financial capability of SMEs in Enugu state. The study adopted a descriptive survey design in order to elicit information from respondents. . The study suggests that the Enugu state Government should introduce practical skill acquisition programmes that are designed to foster creativity and encourage entrepreneurs to create more employment opportunities, also that the Government needs to sustain Entrepreneurship by providing soft loans to entrepreneurs to boost their financial capability.