When Is a Solution Not a Solution? Wicked Problems, Hybrid Solutions, and the Rhetoric of Civic Entr...

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Beteiligte: Gerding, Jeffrey M., Vealey, Kyle P.
In: Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 31, 2017, 3, S. 290-318
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SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 290-318
ISSN: 1552-4574
1050-6519
DOI: 10.1177/1050651917695538
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> This article examines the ongoing development of +POOL, a recreational pool, filtration system, and floating laboratory, to better understand the rhetorical work involved in civic entrepreneurship. The authors consider how the overall development of +POOL as an entrepreneurial venture might help expand the inventive possibilities for civic entrepreneurs coming to grips with wicked problems today. The study offers a look into the rhetorical work of civic entrepreneurship by examining the way +POOL develops a hybrid solution, which recognizes and foregrounds the notion that wicked problems, such as the pollution of the East River, can never be fully understood or known at any one moment. Hybrid solutions, then, offer stable outcomes for civic entrepreneurial ventures that are dynamic enough to continually adapt to the shifting and evolving contours of a wicked problem. </jats:p>