PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and re... more PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave ® and Macmillan ® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Global sustainability as a business imperative / edited by James A.F. Stoner and Charles Wankel. p. cm. -(Palgrave Series on global sustainability) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Sustainable development. 2. Business enterprises-Environmental aspects. 3. Social responsibility of business. I.
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2017
En 1986, Richard Hamming, un científico e innovador intelectual muy respetado, dio un discurso en... more En 1986, Richard Hamming, un científico e innovador intelectual muy respetado, dio un discurso en el Bell Labs Morris Research and Engineering Center en Morristown, N.J., donde recordó de una serie de comidas en ciertos laboratorios, en que comenzaba preguntando: "¿Cuáles son los problemas más importantes de su campo?" Después de una semana les preguntó "¿Qué problemas importantes están abordando ustedes?" Y después de algún tiempo, entró un día y dijo "Si lo que están haciendo no es importante, y piensan que no llevará a algo importante ¿por qué están en los laboratorios Bell trabajando sobre eso?" (Hamming, 1986) Las preguntas de Hamming no solo se deben plantear a los científicos de uno de los mejores centros de investigación del mundo de todos los tiempos. "¿Cuál es el problema más urgente que enfrentamos hoy en día? ¿Estamos en ello? Y si no, ¿por qué no lo estamos haciendo?"-son palabras apropiadas para cada uno de nosotros para el poco tiempo que tenemos, afortunados de estar en este planeta tan bonito. Teniendo en cuenta la historia de los jesuitas y su tradición de "cambiar el mundo" a través de la educación inspirada en innovaciones sociales repetidas (Lowney, 2003), las universidades jesuitas y sus escuelas de negocios están invitadas sobre todo a explorar tales preguntas y descubrir, haciéndolo, las preguntas más importantes que tenemos. Es cierto que el Papa Francisco en Laudato Si' (Francisco, 2015) tiene muy pocas dudas sobre el desafío más urgente que todos, nuestra especie incluso, enfrentamos. Nos pide-en una encíclica muy diferente porque se dirige no solo a los católicos o a los cristianos sino a todos en este planeta-que entablemos un diálogo sobre el rumbo económico, medioambiental, social y cultural, claramente dañino y potencialmente catastrófico en el que nos embarcamos como especie;
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2020
In the very first issue of this journal, Seattle University professor William L. Weis gently inqu... more In the very first issue of this journal, Seattle University professor William L. Weis gently inquired about the extent to which we were actually walking our talking about sustainability in his own and other Jesuit business schools (Weis, 2013). Or perhaps you might say that he "called us out" on the extent to which we were not doing so. The nature of his inquiry and the questions he asks are universal, applicable to all business schools and universities around the world, yet the challenges to action he presents are especially appropriate for Jesuit business schools (and universities) because of their faith-based values and explicit mission statements. Seven years later, Marinilka Barros Kimbro, Rubina Mahsud, and Davit Adut, also from the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University, continue that type of inquiry and take it to a new level by asking Jesuit universities if they are "putting their money where their mouths are" when it comes to investing endowment funds. In the first of two articles in this current issue, they explore the extent to which Jesuit universities based in the United States are supporting the fossil fuel industries that contribute so much to the climate change and global warming that is rapidly destroying the capacity of the planet to support our own and other species. Or, more precisely, they explore the extent to which those institutions have divested from fossil fuels through the removal of fossil fuel assets from their endowment portfolios. Kimbro, Mahsud, and Adut then move on in the next article to explore the reasons that are frequently offered both for and against divestment from fossil fuel securities. They find the reasons supporting divestment to be stronger, on balance, than the reasons in favor of maintaining such investments, and come to the conclusion that all universities, both Jesuit and otherwise, should divest from such securities not only for definite moral and ethical reasons but also out of financial concerns. They argue that divesting from an industry whose future is more and more CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2016
, the IAJBS's 15 th Annual World Forum passed a resolution that was very unusual, perhaps even un... more , the IAJBS's 15 th Annual World Forum passed a resolution that was very unusual, perhaps even unique, for any set of annual conferences. The theme of the 2009 World Forum at XLRI in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India, was "Leadership for Sustainability." The Jamshedpur resolution called for the next ten years of World Forums to be dedicated to the theme of global sustainability. All the World Forums since then have been built around this theme, focusing on topics such as "Educating champions of sustainable development: Best practices of our business schools," "Technology and business for a sustainable world," and "Sustainability & business practices: Implications for our schools." The idea of establishing an IAJBS journal focusing on global sustainability emerged the following year at the end of the 2010 World Forum at Ateneo de Manila University. The resulting Journal of Management for Global Sustainability published four articles and an essay addressing the need to take action on the many interrelated aspects of global unsustainability, its disproportionate impacts on the world's most vulnerable peoples-most notably its impacts on increasing and making more intractable the tragedies of poverty and social injustice-and, of course, threats to the very existence of all species, including our own. In June of 2009, the atmospheric CO 2 level was reported to be 389 ppm, having passed, in April 1987, the level of 350 ppm, widely recognized to be the point at which further increases in CO 2 levels seemed very, very likely to start a series of complex and destructive changes in the world's climate. On August 15, 2017, the Mauna Loa Observatory (NOAA-ESRL) reported CO 2 atmospheric concentration to be 405 ppm (ProOxygen, 2017). As the world continues to fail to take adequate actions to avoid global warming and climate change, the
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2017
Our species faces the greatest challenge it has ever faced: how to transform the currently domina... more Our species faces the greatest challenge it has ever faced: how to transform the currently dominant global producing-distributingconsuming system from one that is destroying the planet's capacity to support our species into one that will enable our species and all others to continue to exist and "flourish forever" (in the words of John Ehrenfeld), "heal a broken world" (in the words of the Jesuit Task Force Report on Ecology), and achieve "integral ecology," "care for the vulnerable," and "care for our common home" (in the words and subtitle of Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si'). The system in which we live is clearly broken. It is continuously and increasingly damaging all aspects of the global ecosystem, creating almost unheard of levels of income and wealth inequality across the globe, bringing about climate change, global warming, and weather weirding that impact every area of the world, and marshaling in the sixth great extinction.
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2019
In 1986, widely honored scientist and intellectual innovator Richard Hamming gave a talk at the B... more In 1986, widely honored scientist and intellectual innovator Richard Hamming gave a talk at the Bell Labs Morris Research and Engineering Center in Morristown, N.J. where he recalled a series of lunches at one of the labs. During those lunches he began asking, "'What are the important problems of your field?' And after a week or so, 'What important problems are you working on?' And after some more time (he) came in one day and said, 'If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?'" (Hamming, 1986). Hamming's questions need not be limited to scientists at one of the world's greatest research institutions of all time. "What is the most pressing problem facing us today? Are we working on it? If we are not working on it, why are we not doing so?"-these words might be appropriate for each of us in the short amount of time we are blessed with to be on this beautiful planet. Given the history of the Jesuits and their tradition of "changing the world" through education inspired by repeated social innovations (Lowney, 2003), Jesuit universities and their business schools are especially called upon to explore such questions and to discover, in doing so, the most important problem facing us. Indeed, Pope Francis in Laudato Si' (Francis, 2015) seems to have little doubt about the most pressing challenge that we all, including our very species itself, face. He is asking us-in an encyclical that is unusual in its being addressed not just to Catholics or Christians but to everyone on this planet-to engage in dialogue about the already demonstrably harmful and potentially catastrophic economic, environmental, social, and cultural course we as a species are embarked upon. And to discover, from that dialogue, how we can make our own special contributions toward improving the trajectory of our current actions.
Dialogue and debate are at the core of the social sciences. In this piece, the Journal of Managem... more Dialogue and debate are at the core of the social sciences. In this piece, the Journal of Management Inquiry ( JMI) editors-in-chief discuss their position and decisions pertaining to the publication of Professor Anita McGahan’s response to Professor Hardimos Tsoukas. A key decision—given JMI’s commitment to dialogue and exchange in its scholarly form—included publishing three curated pieces where renowned scholars applied their scholarly voice and expertise to McGahan’s historical narrative. To conclude this piece and the entire Editors’ Choice collection, five scholars speak to needed qualitative research standards or address McGahan’s leadership directly. Specific corrections to Tsoukas are also provided.
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2013
The primary purpose of this journal is to help all of us move more rapidly toward a sustainable a... more The primary purpose of this journal is to help all of us move more rapidly toward a sustainable and socially just world. We will seek to do so by providing a forum in which scholarship oriented toward sustainability and social justice, that is, toward building a better world for all, can be published and, we hope, influence all of us as scholars, managers, leaders, and citizens of the world to effect positive change. We, the editorial board, believe that this purpose is stable and we hope that our editors, contributors, and readers will be willing and eager to take risks, try out new ideas and types of analysis, insights, and approaches, learn from our experiences, and welcome changes in and evolution of the journal. It is clear that even the best informed and wisest among us has little certainty about how to manage for global sustainability. Humility thus is appropriate in all we write and do-but we seek to combine humility with intellectual rigour and professional boldness.
This publication contains reprint articles for which IEEE does not hold copyright. Full text is n... more This publication contains reprint articles for which IEEE does not hold copyright. Full text is not available on IEEE Xplore for these articles.
Managerial careers are characterized by early rapid upward mobility followed by inevitable leveTm... more Managerial careers are characterized by early rapid upward mobility followed by inevitable leveTmg-off or plateauing. Based on interviews with managers in nine major organizations, a general dynamic model of managerial careers is presented. Some key issues associated with the career plateau are isolated and suggestions for managing the plateau process are offered. A plateau is defined as the point in a career where the likelihood of additional hierarchical promotion is very low. Career plateaus are a natural consequence of the way organizations are shaped. Since there are fewer positions than as
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2021
el movimiento más grande del mundo y porqué nadie lo esperaba) el experto, activista y líder ambi... more el movimiento más grande del mundo y porqué nadie lo esperaba) el experto, activista y líder ambiental Paul Hawken describe el movimiento mundial de millones de personas y grupos trabajando para crear un mundo mejor. A principios del primer capítulo, informa haber visto: congregaciones convincentes, coherentes, orgánicas y autoorganizadas que involucran a decenas de millones de personas dedicadas al cambio. Cuando me preguntan en las universidades si soy pesimista u optimista sobre el futuro, mi respuesta es siempre la misma: si miras la ciencia que describe lo que está sucediendo en la Tierra hoy y no eres pesimista, no tienes los datos correctos. Si conoces a la gente en este movimiento sin nombre y no eres optimista, no tienes corazón. (4) Desde 2007, las razones por tener tanto el pesimismo como el optimismo han aumentado. El ecosistema del planeta ha seguido siendo atacado y deteriorándose. Y ha pasado la última oportunidad de 10 años para tomar las acciones necesarias a fin de prevenir una catástrofe ecológica global, al igual que todas las otras oportunidades de 10 años para acciones ugentes. Estas oportunidades siguen pasando sin inspirar el nivel de compromiso y acciones a nivel mundial para evitar esa catástrofe, y con cada década se crecen la magnitud y el precio de las acciones necesarias. Aunque muchos países han hecho avances significativos en tratar con los desafíos existenciales planteados por el cambio climático y la insostenibilidad global, estos esfuerzon están lejos de ser suficientes (Wallace-Wells, 2020).
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2020
Six decades ago, an early editorial in the fledgling MIT Industrial Management Review-which later... more Six decades ago, an early editorial in the fledgling MIT Industrial Management Review-which later became the MIT Sloan Management Review-focused on the disconcerting and even shocking scandal of that time: a set of business actions that became widely known as the "GE price-fixing scandal" (MIT Industrial Management Review, 1961). A set of coordinated and illegal actions among upper-level managers at General Electric and other companies turned out to be so egregious and widespread that high-level executives at participating firms were convicted and actually handed down prison terms for their collusion. It was a rare and ever-so-unusual event in the United States business scene at that time … and ever since, as noted in general by Jennifer Taub in Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime (2020). It was rare and unusual, indeed, when one reflects on what appears not to have happened in a much greater scandal (Krugman, 2006; Hall, 2015) that began a decade later, when researchers and then top-level executives at Exxon-now ExxonMobildeveloped, buried, and denied clear and definitive research showing that continuing to burn fossil fuels would do exactly what it has done: put the very existence of our own and other species at the imminent risk of extinction. The Review at the time of that 1961 editorial was a wholly student-run publication, modeled on law school journals, and edited by the "academically best and brightest." The editors concluded their essay by turning President Calvin Coolidge's famous quote-that "the business of America is business"-on its head with the suggestion that "the business of business is America." Not bad for a handful of graduate business students, and yet now, six decades and 100 more CO 2 parts per million (ppm)-from 316 ppm to 416 ppm (Keeling et al., 2001)-later, the phrase might be rewritten better as "the business of business is the world," or better yet, as brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2018
En The Serengeti Rules: The quest to discover how life works and why it matters 1 (Las reglas del... more En The Serengeti Rules: The quest to discover how life works and why it matters 1 (Las reglas del Serengueti: La búsqueda para descubrir cómo funciona la vida y por qué vale la pena), Sean B. Carroll explora cómo los investigadores pioneros investigaron preguntas como estas: "¿Cómo funciona la vida?" y "¿Cómo hace la naturaleza para producir la cantidad correcta de cebras y leones en la sabana africana, o de peces en el océano?". Y el por qué las respuestas que encontraron a las preguntas como estas, son importantes para nosotros en el presente mientras luchamos contra algunos de nuestros problemas actuales-especialmente los que tienen que ver con la insostenibilidad del planeta. En el último capítulo, titulado "Después: Las Reglas de la Vida," Carroll escribe: "Yo afirmé al inicio de este libro que nuestro incremento en la maestría de la biología era un gran catalizador de los cambios dramáticos en la cantidad y cualidad de la vida humana en el último siglo." Después él se pregunta, "¿Entonces qué papel tendrá la biología en los asuntos humanos en el próximo siglo?" Después de un corto comentario del sumario sobre las contribuciones pasadas de la biología a nuestro bienestar, al igual que al de las otras especies que él ha explorado en todo su libro y notando posibles futuras contribuciones, él escribe: 1 Los fragmentos tomados de The Serengeti Rules son citados con el permiso de Sean B. Carroll y su casa editorial, Princeton University Press, lo cual agradecemos.
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2018
On June 2, 2016, the MacArthur Foundation announced a competition awarding $100 million to a sing... more On June 2, 2016, the MacArthur Foundation announced a competition awarding $100 million to a single project that would contribute toward solving a significant societal problem. Six weeks later, in Nairobi, Kenya, the members of the annual meeting of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools' World Forum unanimously passed a resolution requesting the submission of an application that utilized the resources of the global network of Jesuit business schools in addressing the inter-connected problem of global unsustainability, social injustice, and poverty. This article reports on the resulting 2016 application as well as on a possible 2019 version that builds upon it. The article emphasizes four aspects of innovation at the core of both these applications and the 2016 MacArthur Foundation competition. The four areas are: 1) the MacArthur Foundation's innovative approach to inspiring societal change; 2) innovation in teaching and research content-transforming teaching materials and research topics in business schools, both Jesuit and other; 3) innovation in the processes of organizational transformation-participating business schools transforming their teaching and research in an "impossibly" short time period of only
Mankind faces the challenge of transforming the existing global production, distribution, and con... more Mankind faces the challenge of transforming the existing global production, distribution, and consumption system into one that is more just and sustainable and which the Earth's resources can support (e.g., Francis, 2015). Unfortunately, current business education is "part of the problem" of global unsustainability as it supports, enables, justifies, and intensifies the unsustainable aspects of the existing business system. Thus, while all people have opportunities to contribute to this transformation and are "called" to do so, university administrators and professors in all disciplines have a special opportunity and obligation to heed that call. This article is the second of three planned articles focusing on business education, and particularly on finance teaching within that education. It describes finance professors' exceptional opportunity to become "part of the solution" and how some are already doing so. It concludes by describing why finance professors in faith-enabled business schools, such as those of the world's Jesuit universities, have an especially great opportunity to contribute to this transformation.
In The Serengeti Rules: The quest to discover how life works and why it matters, Sean B. Carroll ... more In The Serengeti Rules: The quest to discover how life works and why it matters, Sean B. Carroll explores how pioneering researchers investigated questions such as "How does life work?" and "How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean?". And why the answers they found to questions such as these are important to us today as we grapple with some of our current problems-especially those of global unsustainability. 1 The passages from The Serengeti Rules are quoted with the permission of Sean B. Carroll and his publisher, Princeton University Press, for which we extend our thanks.
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and re... more PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave ® and Macmillan ® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Global sustainability as a business imperative / edited by James A.F. Stoner and Charles Wankel. p. cm. -(Palgrave Series on global sustainability) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Sustainable development. 2. Business enterprises-Environmental aspects. 3. Social responsibility of business. I.
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2017
En 1986, Richard Hamming, un científico e innovador intelectual muy respetado, dio un discurso en... more En 1986, Richard Hamming, un científico e innovador intelectual muy respetado, dio un discurso en el Bell Labs Morris Research and Engineering Center en Morristown, N.J., donde recordó de una serie de comidas en ciertos laboratorios, en que comenzaba preguntando: "¿Cuáles son los problemas más importantes de su campo?" Después de una semana les preguntó "¿Qué problemas importantes están abordando ustedes?" Y después de algún tiempo, entró un día y dijo "Si lo que están haciendo no es importante, y piensan que no llevará a algo importante ¿por qué están en los laboratorios Bell trabajando sobre eso?" (Hamming, 1986) Las preguntas de Hamming no solo se deben plantear a los científicos de uno de los mejores centros de investigación del mundo de todos los tiempos. "¿Cuál es el problema más urgente que enfrentamos hoy en día? ¿Estamos en ello? Y si no, ¿por qué no lo estamos haciendo?"-son palabras apropiadas para cada uno de nosotros para el poco tiempo que tenemos, afortunados de estar en este planeta tan bonito. Teniendo en cuenta la historia de los jesuitas y su tradición de "cambiar el mundo" a través de la educación inspirada en innovaciones sociales repetidas (Lowney, 2003), las universidades jesuitas y sus escuelas de negocios están invitadas sobre todo a explorar tales preguntas y descubrir, haciéndolo, las preguntas más importantes que tenemos. Es cierto que el Papa Francisco en Laudato Si' (Francisco, 2015) tiene muy pocas dudas sobre el desafío más urgente que todos, nuestra especie incluso, enfrentamos. Nos pide-en una encíclica muy diferente porque se dirige no solo a los católicos o a los cristianos sino a todos en este planeta-que entablemos un diálogo sobre el rumbo económico, medioambiental, social y cultural, claramente dañino y potencialmente catastrófico en el que nos embarcamos como especie;
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2020
In the very first issue of this journal, Seattle University professor William L. Weis gently inqu... more In the very first issue of this journal, Seattle University professor William L. Weis gently inquired about the extent to which we were actually walking our talking about sustainability in his own and other Jesuit business schools (Weis, 2013). Or perhaps you might say that he "called us out" on the extent to which we were not doing so. The nature of his inquiry and the questions he asks are universal, applicable to all business schools and universities around the world, yet the challenges to action he presents are especially appropriate for Jesuit business schools (and universities) because of their faith-based values and explicit mission statements. Seven years later, Marinilka Barros Kimbro, Rubina Mahsud, and Davit Adut, also from the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University, continue that type of inquiry and take it to a new level by asking Jesuit universities if they are "putting their money where their mouths are" when it comes to investing endowment funds. In the first of two articles in this current issue, they explore the extent to which Jesuit universities based in the United States are supporting the fossil fuel industries that contribute so much to the climate change and global warming that is rapidly destroying the capacity of the planet to support our own and other species. Or, more precisely, they explore the extent to which those institutions have divested from fossil fuels through the removal of fossil fuel assets from their endowment portfolios. Kimbro, Mahsud, and Adut then move on in the next article to explore the reasons that are frequently offered both for and against divestment from fossil fuel securities. They find the reasons supporting divestment to be stronger, on balance, than the reasons in favor of maintaining such investments, and come to the conclusion that all universities, both Jesuit and otherwise, should divest from such securities not only for definite moral and ethical reasons but also out of financial concerns. They argue that divesting from an industry whose future is more and more CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2016
, the IAJBS's 15 th Annual World Forum passed a resolution that was very unusual, perhaps even un... more , the IAJBS's 15 th Annual World Forum passed a resolution that was very unusual, perhaps even unique, for any set of annual conferences. The theme of the 2009 World Forum at XLRI in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India, was "Leadership for Sustainability." The Jamshedpur resolution called for the next ten years of World Forums to be dedicated to the theme of global sustainability. All the World Forums since then have been built around this theme, focusing on topics such as "Educating champions of sustainable development: Best practices of our business schools," "Technology and business for a sustainable world," and "Sustainability & business practices: Implications for our schools." The idea of establishing an IAJBS journal focusing on global sustainability emerged the following year at the end of the 2010 World Forum at Ateneo de Manila University. The resulting Journal of Management for Global Sustainability published four articles and an essay addressing the need to take action on the many interrelated aspects of global unsustainability, its disproportionate impacts on the world's most vulnerable peoples-most notably its impacts on increasing and making more intractable the tragedies of poverty and social injustice-and, of course, threats to the very existence of all species, including our own. In June of 2009, the atmospheric CO 2 level was reported to be 389 ppm, having passed, in April 1987, the level of 350 ppm, widely recognized to be the point at which further increases in CO 2 levels seemed very, very likely to start a series of complex and destructive changes in the world's climate. On August 15, 2017, the Mauna Loa Observatory (NOAA-ESRL) reported CO 2 atmospheric concentration to be 405 ppm (ProOxygen, 2017). As the world continues to fail to take adequate actions to avoid global warming and climate change, the
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2017
Our species faces the greatest challenge it has ever faced: how to transform the currently domina... more Our species faces the greatest challenge it has ever faced: how to transform the currently dominant global producing-distributingconsuming system from one that is destroying the planet's capacity to support our species into one that will enable our species and all others to continue to exist and "flourish forever" (in the words of John Ehrenfeld), "heal a broken world" (in the words of the Jesuit Task Force Report on Ecology), and achieve "integral ecology," "care for the vulnerable," and "care for our common home" (in the words and subtitle of Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si'). The system in which we live is clearly broken. It is continuously and increasingly damaging all aspects of the global ecosystem, creating almost unheard of levels of income and wealth inequality across the globe, bringing about climate change, global warming, and weather weirding that impact every area of the world, and marshaling in the sixth great extinction.
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2019
In 1986, widely honored scientist and intellectual innovator Richard Hamming gave a talk at the B... more In 1986, widely honored scientist and intellectual innovator Richard Hamming gave a talk at the Bell Labs Morris Research and Engineering Center in Morristown, N.J. where he recalled a series of lunches at one of the labs. During those lunches he began asking, "'What are the important problems of your field?' And after a week or so, 'What important problems are you working on?' And after some more time (he) came in one day and said, 'If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?'" (Hamming, 1986). Hamming's questions need not be limited to scientists at one of the world's greatest research institutions of all time. "What is the most pressing problem facing us today? Are we working on it? If we are not working on it, why are we not doing so?"-these words might be appropriate for each of us in the short amount of time we are blessed with to be on this beautiful planet. Given the history of the Jesuits and their tradition of "changing the world" through education inspired by repeated social innovations (Lowney, 2003), Jesuit universities and their business schools are especially called upon to explore such questions and to discover, in doing so, the most important problem facing us. Indeed, Pope Francis in Laudato Si' (Francis, 2015) seems to have little doubt about the most pressing challenge that we all, including our very species itself, face. He is asking us-in an encyclical that is unusual in its being addressed not just to Catholics or Christians but to everyone on this planet-to engage in dialogue about the already demonstrably harmful and potentially catastrophic economic, environmental, social, and cultural course we as a species are embarked upon. And to discover, from that dialogue, how we can make our own special contributions toward improving the trajectory of our current actions.
Dialogue and debate are at the core of the social sciences. In this piece, the Journal of Managem... more Dialogue and debate are at the core of the social sciences. In this piece, the Journal of Management Inquiry ( JMI) editors-in-chief discuss their position and decisions pertaining to the publication of Professor Anita McGahan’s response to Professor Hardimos Tsoukas. A key decision—given JMI’s commitment to dialogue and exchange in its scholarly form—included publishing three curated pieces where renowned scholars applied their scholarly voice and expertise to McGahan’s historical narrative. To conclude this piece and the entire Editors’ Choice collection, five scholars speak to needed qualitative research standards or address McGahan’s leadership directly. Specific corrections to Tsoukas are also provided.
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2013
The primary purpose of this journal is to help all of us move more rapidly toward a sustainable a... more The primary purpose of this journal is to help all of us move more rapidly toward a sustainable and socially just world. We will seek to do so by providing a forum in which scholarship oriented toward sustainability and social justice, that is, toward building a better world for all, can be published and, we hope, influence all of us as scholars, managers, leaders, and citizens of the world to effect positive change. We, the editorial board, believe that this purpose is stable and we hope that our editors, contributors, and readers will be willing and eager to take risks, try out new ideas and types of analysis, insights, and approaches, learn from our experiences, and welcome changes in and evolution of the journal. It is clear that even the best informed and wisest among us has little certainty about how to manage for global sustainability. Humility thus is appropriate in all we write and do-but we seek to combine humility with intellectual rigour and professional boldness.
This publication contains reprint articles for which IEEE does not hold copyright. Full text is n... more This publication contains reprint articles for which IEEE does not hold copyright. Full text is not available on IEEE Xplore for these articles.
Managerial careers are characterized by early rapid upward mobility followed by inevitable leveTm... more Managerial careers are characterized by early rapid upward mobility followed by inevitable leveTmg-off or plateauing. Based on interviews with managers in nine major organizations, a general dynamic model of managerial careers is presented. Some key issues associated with the career plateau are isolated and suggestions for managing the plateau process are offered. A plateau is defined as the point in a career where the likelihood of additional hierarchical promotion is very low. Career plateaus are a natural consequence of the way organizations are shaped. Since there are fewer positions than as
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2021
el movimiento más grande del mundo y porqué nadie lo esperaba) el experto, activista y líder ambi... more el movimiento más grande del mundo y porqué nadie lo esperaba) el experto, activista y líder ambiental Paul Hawken describe el movimiento mundial de millones de personas y grupos trabajando para crear un mundo mejor. A principios del primer capítulo, informa haber visto: congregaciones convincentes, coherentes, orgánicas y autoorganizadas que involucran a decenas de millones de personas dedicadas al cambio. Cuando me preguntan en las universidades si soy pesimista u optimista sobre el futuro, mi respuesta es siempre la misma: si miras la ciencia que describe lo que está sucediendo en la Tierra hoy y no eres pesimista, no tienes los datos correctos. Si conoces a la gente en este movimiento sin nombre y no eres optimista, no tienes corazón. (4) Desde 2007, las razones por tener tanto el pesimismo como el optimismo han aumentado. El ecosistema del planeta ha seguido siendo atacado y deteriorándose. Y ha pasado la última oportunidad de 10 años para tomar las acciones necesarias a fin de prevenir una catástrofe ecológica global, al igual que todas las otras oportunidades de 10 años para acciones ugentes. Estas oportunidades siguen pasando sin inspirar el nivel de compromiso y acciones a nivel mundial para evitar esa catástrofe, y con cada década se crecen la magnitud y el precio de las acciones necesarias. Aunque muchos países han hecho avances significativos en tratar con los desafíos existenciales planteados por el cambio climático y la insostenibilidad global, estos esfuerzon están lejos de ser suficientes (Wallace-Wells, 2020).
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2020
Six decades ago, an early editorial in the fledgling MIT Industrial Management Review-which later... more Six decades ago, an early editorial in the fledgling MIT Industrial Management Review-which later became the MIT Sloan Management Review-focused on the disconcerting and even shocking scandal of that time: a set of business actions that became widely known as the "GE price-fixing scandal" (MIT Industrial Management Review, 1961). A set of coordinated and illegal actions among upper-level managers at General Electric and other companies turned out to be so egregious and widespread that high-level executives at participating firms were convicted and actually handed down prison terms for their collusion. It was a rare and ever-so-unusual event in the United States business scene at that time … and ever since, as noted in general by Jennifer Taub in Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime (2020). It was rare and unusual, indeed, when one reflects on what appears not to have happened in a much greater scandal (Krugman, 2006; Hall, 2015) that began a decade later, when researchers and then top-level executives at Exxon-now ExxonMobildeveloped, buried, and denied clear and definitive research showing that continuing to burn fossil fuels would do exactly what it has done: put the very existence of our own and other species at the imminent risk of extinction. The Review at the time of that 1961 editorial was a wholly student-run publication, modeled on law school journals, and edited by the "academically best and brightest." The editors concluded their essay by turning President Calvin Coolidge's famous quote-that "the business of America is business"-on its head with the suggestion that "the business of business is America." Not bad for a handful of graduate business students, and yet now, six decades and 100 more CO 2 parts per million (ppm)-from 316 ppm to 416 ppm (Keeling et al., 2001)-later, the phrase might be rewritten better as "the business of business is the world," or better yet, as brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2018
En The Serengeti Rules: The quest to discover how life works and why it matters 1 (Las reglas del... more En The Serengeti Rules: The quest to discover how life works and why it matters 1 (Las reglas del Serengueti: La búsqueda para descubrir cómo funciona la vida y por qué vale la pena), Sean B. Carroll explora cómo los investigadores pioneros investigaron preguntas como estas: "¿Cómo funciona la vida?" y "¿Cómo hace la naturaleza para producir la cantidad correcta de cebras y leones en la sabana africana, o de peces en el océano?". Y el por qué las respuestas que encontraron a las preguntas como estas, son importantes para nosotros en el presente mientras luchamos contra algunos de nuestros problemas actuales-especialmente los que tienen que ver con la insostenibilidad del planeta. En el último capítulo, titulado "Después: Las Reglas de la Vida," Carroll escribe: "Yo afirmé al inicio de este libro que nuestro incremento en la maestría de la biología era un gran catalizador de los cambios dramáticos en la cantidad y cualidad de la vida humana en el último siglo." Después él se pregunta, "¿Entonces qué papel tendrá la biología en los asuntos humanos en el próximo siglo?" Después de un corto comentario del sumario sobre las contribuciones pasadas de la biología a nuestro bienestar, al igual que al de las otras especies que él ha explorado en todo su libro y notando posibles futuras contribuciones, él escribe: 1 Los fragmentos tomados de The Serengeti Rules son citados con el permiso de Sean B. Carroll y su casa editorial, Princeton University Press, lo cual agradecemos.
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, 2018
On June 2, 2016, the MacArthur Foundation announced a competition awarding $100 million to a sing... more On June 2, 2016, the MacArthur Foundation announced a competition awarding $100 million to a single project that would contribute toward solving a significant societal problem. Six weeks later, in Nairobi, Kenya, the members of the annual meeting of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools' World Forum unanimously passed a resolution requesting the submission of an application that utilized the resources of the global network of Jesuit business schools in addressing the inter-connected problem of global unsustainability, social injustice, and poverty. This article reports on the resulting 2016 application as well as on a possible 2019 version that builds upon it. The article emphasizes four aspects of innovation at the core of both these applications and the 2016 MacArthur Foundation competition. The four areas are: 1) the MacArthur Foundation's innovative approach to inspiring societal change; 2) innovation in teaching and research content-transforming teaching materials and research topics in business schools, both Jesuit and other; 3) innovation in the processes of organizational transformation-participating business schools transforming their teaching and research in an "impossibly" short time period of only
Mankind faces the challenge of transforming the existing global production, distribution, and con... more Mankind faces the challenge of transforming the existing global production, distribution, and consumption system into one that is more just and sustainable and which the Earth's resources can support (e.g., Francis, 2015). Unfortunately, current business education is "part of the problem" of global unsustainability as it supports, enables, justifies, and intensifies the unsustainable aspects of the existing business system. Thus, while all people have opportunities to contribute to this transformation and are "called" to do so, university administrators and professors in all disciplines have a special opportunity and obligation to heed that call. This article is the second of three planned articles focusing on business education, and particularly on finance teaching within that education. It describes finance professors' exceptional opportunity to become "part of the solution" and how some are already doing so. It concludes by describing why finance professors in faith-enabled business schools, such as those of the world's Jesuit universities, have an especially great opportunity to contribute to this transformation.
In The Serengeti Rules: The quest to discover how life works and why it matters, Sean B. Carroll ... more In The Serengeti Rules: The quest to discover how life works and why it matters, Sean B. Carroll explores how pioneering researchers investigated questions such as "How does life work?" and "How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean?". And why the answers they found to questions such as these are important to us today as we grapple with some of our current problems-especially those of global unsustainability. 1 The passages from The Serengeti Rules are quoted with the permission of Sean B. Carroll and his publisher, Princeton University Press, for which we extend our thanks.
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