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What is your idea of Utopia?
Take the following 3-question survey and results will be reported in a future blog post. https://ivey.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41JVNzS4GZKaihv Thanks to Network for Business Sustainability
Why are ‘elite’ management journals silent on issues that matter? — PRiMEtime
By Bill Harley and Peter Fleming / In 2013, the US Academy of Management conference (AoM) – the world’s premier meeting of management scholars – took place in Florida. The theme was compellingly called ‘Capitalism in Question’. Thousands of scholars presented papers on the dark side of global capitalism, studying the stark wealth inequalities now […]Why…
Event Announcement: Envisioning Real Utopias Book Club
A book club was something we envisioned as part of our utopia platform initiative. We have all been too overwhelmed by the continuing pandemic and high workloads though to do it. But the Center for Inequality Dynamics is setting one up on February 26, 2021. The event is open to everyone. Core Readings Envisioning Real Utopias by…
Teaching Formats for Managing Transformation
Given that our site’s purpose primarily is to support teaching that prepares students for being responsible leaders oriented towards building a more sustainable future, I want to highlight the nine courses that received this year’s “Ideas Worth Teaching Award” by the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program. I only noted the Awards in more detail…
Why Business Should Imagine Utopia
Thank you to Maya Fischhoff at Network for Business Society for this contentArticle originally published on NBS (here) Ideas of utopia inspire us to change the world. Imagining a perfect society can guide business action — and bring us joy. Dr. Charlene Zietsma is a co-founder of the Utopia Platform for Imagining Transformations. She is…
A Long Night of Utopia
Last night I attended my first cultural event since January. Fittingly with our utopian endeavour and thoughts that have kept me busy during the Covid-19 lockdown, it was a utopian event – the “Long Night of Utopia” organized by my university, the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. The event combined two or even three aims…
Roots of Reimagining
My research into social change is rooted in the understanding that change is hard because of the effects of interlocking institutions which hold things in place. When the covid-19 pandemic hit the world, rapid change occurred overnight. With travel restrictions, massive shifts to work-from-home and lockdowns, I thought – here is a chance to stop…
Navigating between dystopia and utopia
“Since about 500 years BC, we know that “No man ever steps in the same river twice” (Heraclitus). As ubiquitous change ever might be, however, it has always been challenging to explain, predict or enact societal change. The dialectics of societal change seem to imply that a readiness for change is inextricably linked to the…
Reimagining conferencing – Organizing the #OSSW20 Sustainably
Since 2006, the journal Organization Studies – one of the key journals in the field of management research – runs an annual summer workshop devoted to exploring a particular theme capturing current theoretical developments in organization studies, often in relation to relevant empirical phenomena. Recent examples were “Food Organizing Matters” or “Spirituality, Symbolism, and Storytelling”.…
Rebuilding toward a different future
As we face up to the COVID-19 crisis, there have been some vague exhortations not to ‘waste the crisis’ and use it as the basis for a ‘system reboot’. There have also been some hasty, opportunistic and unconvincing statements of how we should respond that often appear to be the same-old messages repackaged for the…
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