The good business school

Rhodes, Carl; Pullen, Alison

doi:10.1177/13505084231189268

Organization

2023

DOI: 10.1177/13505084231189268

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The good business school

Carl Rhodes,

Alison Pullen

Abstract: As Organization celebrates its 30th Anniversary, this paper asks: what might it mean to be a good business school? The paper reviews research published in this journal to assess the current state of business schools, revealing a somewhat dismal picture of institutions beholden to instrumental managerialism, top-down hierarchical control, obsession with metrics, and narrow and elitist research agendas. This state of affairs is re-assessed though Raewyn Connell’s idea of The Good University. Through this analysi… Show more

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Performance management in the prosocial market economy: a new paradigm for economic performance and sustainability

Pfister,

Otley,

Ahrens

et al. 2024

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Purpose The purpose of this multi-voiced paper is to propose a prosocial paradigm for the field of performance management and management control systems. This new paradigm suggests cultivating prosocial behaviour and prosocial groups in organizations to simultaneously achieve the objectives of economic performance and sustainability. Design/methodology/approach The authors share a common concern about the future of humanity and nature. The authors challenge the influential assumption of economic man from neoclassical economic theory and build on evolutionary science and the core design principles of prosocial groups to develop a prosocial paradigm. Findings Findings are based on the premise of the prosocial paradigm that self-interested behaviour may outperform prosocial behaviour within a group but that prosocial groups outperform groups dominated by self-interest. The authors explore various dimensions of performance management from the prosocial perspective in the private and public sectors. Research limitations/implications The authors call for theoretical, conceptual and empirical research that explores the prosocial paradigm. They invite any approach, including positivist, interpretive and critical research, as well as those using qualitative, quantitative and interventionist methods. Practical implications This paper offers implications from the prosocial paradigm for practitioners, particularly for executives and managers, policymakers and educators. Originality/value Adoption of the prosocial paradigm in research and practice shapes what the authors call the prosocial market economy. This is an aspired cultural evolution that functions with market competition yet systematically strengthens prosociality as a cultural norm in organizations, markets and society at large.

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Performance management in the prosocial market economy: a new paradigm for economic performance and sustainability

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Otley,

Ahrens

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QRAM

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Sex/gender inequity in management learning equals violence towards women

Kroese

2024

Management Learning

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With global crises and the rise of misogyny and sexism, progress regarding women’s equality is regressing. In these challenging times, management learning that aims to educate students and professionals on management skills, knowledge, and behaviours, should be deeply concerned with and committed to sex/gender equity; however, sex/gender equity continues to be assaulted in management learning. Exploring the concept of violence, this provocation essay posits that sex/gender inequity in management learning constitutes violence towards women in distinct ways. Violence implies an intense and harmful act and management learning institutions and organisations that do not address sex/gender inequity would be violators, instead of being merely unhelpful. Violence means that change can no longer wait. This essay acknowledges uncertainty and suggests that addressing sex/gender inequity in management learning calls for the sharing of best practices between academia and practice. The essay closes with three core questions that management learning institutions, designers and teachers/facilitators can ask themselves to rewrite their management learning programmes and end this violence towards women.

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Gaia storytelling: Management learning as terrestrial politics

Jørgensen,

Fatien

2024

Organization

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This paper addresses calls for developing eco-centric approaches to sustainable management learning that challenge the anthropocentric technocratic foci of established models. A growing concern is that despite declarations of climate emergencies, programs making a sustainable turn perpetuate rather than challenge the status-quo. A key issue is that they rely on an ontology of separateness which further detaches humans from nature. To propose an alternative approach that re-embeds human in nature through an ontology of relatedness, we develop the concept Gaia storytelling. It combines Arendt’s notion of storytelling with Latour’s notion of Gaia. Gaia storytelling dissolves the anthropocentric culture-nature binary that dominates current thinking by attuning itself to the politics of relations and how this politics performs the world through complex entanglements that involve multiple agencies. Storytelling for Gaia is seen as a way to give purpose and direction in life when this life is seen as interdependent on and created from multiple tangling agencies. Two stories that emerged from management learning exercises are discussed for developing Gaia storytelling: an auto-ethnography of a supermarket allows attuning to how our stories are affectively enacted into being through constant story selling; a storytelling workshop of regional sustainable development is used to discuss the possibilities for creating spaces of appearances that can work for Gaia. Finally, we discuss Gaia storytelling with reference to three principles: (1) natureculture, (2) common space, and (3) performativity.

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The good business school

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

Performance management in the prosocial market economy: a new paradigm for economic performance and sustainability

Performance management in the prosocial market economy: a new paradigm for economic performance and sustainability

Sex/gender inequity in management learning equals violence towards women

Gaia storytelling: Management learning as terrestrial politics

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