JMS Conference 2022 – Repurposing Management for the Public Good: Processes, Obstacles and Unintended Consequences

JMS Conference 2022 – Repurposing Management for the Public Good: Processes, Obstacles and Unintended Consequences

Call for Papers

A Conference Sponsored by Journal of Management Studies & Society for Advancement of Management Studies

 19th September – 21st September, 2022

Møller Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

The rise of management as occupation, activity and discipline is one of the key developments of the last century. Indeed, the word managerial is often used as a key term to qualify our age, world and society (Burnham, 1941; Chandler, 1984; Kiechel, 2012). Yet management broadly and management/business research and education more specifically have been subjected to extensive criticisms (Khurana, 2010; Fleming, 2020, 2021; Gill, 2021; Goshal, 2005; Parker, 2002; 2018; Spicer, 2017; Starkey and Pettigrew, 2016; Tourish 2019; 2020). These include the questionable foundations of its expertise and knowledge base and its failure to add value and address real life problems, its focus on procedural means at narrow targets at the expense of broader substantive goals, its allegiance with narrow sectional interests (such as those of owners) at the expense of broader concerns with the public good and ultimately the fact it often exacerbates rather than ameliorates societal challenges such as inequality, social cohesion, sustainability and climate change. More often than not, management is presented as a regressive force rather than one for good.

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