Special Issue — New Histories of Business Schools and How They May Inspire New Futures

1 September 2021

We might do well to re-examine what we are doing and show the executive judgment and courage necessary to implement radical change (Khurana & Spender 2012: 636).

Scheduled for Publication: September 2021

We might do well to re-examine what we are doing and show the executive judgment and courage necessary to implement radical change (Khurana & Spender 2012: 636).

Business schools are the institutional locus of management learning and education. In recent years, we have gained a greater understanding of how their structures, processes, and power dynamics influence pedagogy and curricula, management theory and research, faculty, students, graduates and society more broadly. We are also witnessing growing research into, and discussion about, the relative lack of innovation in management theory development, research, pedagogy, and curricula (Alvesson & Sandberg, 2012). While there have been a small number of inspirational works that have sought to push us towards changing business schools (Augier and March, 2011; Hassard, 2012; Khurana 2007; Spender, 2016), they have not yet spurred the change we might have hoped for.

Guest Editors:

• Patricia Genoe McLaren, Wilfrid Laurier University
• JC Spender, Kozminski University
• Stephen Cummings, Victoria University of Wellington
• Ellen O’Connor, Dominican University of California
• Christina Lubinski, University of California
• Todd Bridgman, Victoria University of Wellington
• Gabrielle Durepos, Mount Saint Vincent University

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