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Please Join Us: AAT Symposium: Redesigning Business Schools

  • 1.  Please Join Us: AAT Symposium: Redesigning Business Schools

    Posted 07-20-2017 14:28
    Please join us for what we hope will be a thought-provoking All Academy symposium on Redesigning Business schools: At the Interface of a World of Wicked Problems. Hope to see you there!
    Sandra Waddock



    Session Type: Symposium
    Program Session: 615 | Submission: 10096 | Sponsor(s): (AAT)
    Scheduled: Sunday, Aug 6 2017 12:15PM - 1:45PM at Hyatt Regency Atlanta in International Ballroom North
     
    Redesigning Business Schools: At the Interface of a World of Wicked Problems
    Redesigning Business Schools

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    Organizer: Ian Mitroff, U. of California, Berkeley
    Organizer: Sandra A. Waddock, Boston College
    Participant: Anne S. Tsui, U. of Notre Dame
    Participant: Stella M. Nkomo, U. of Pretoria
    Participant: Stuart Hart, U. of Vermont
    Participant: Gerald F. Davis, U. of Michigan
    Discussant: Robert E. Quinn, U. of Michigan
    Business schools are facing collapsing boundaries among organizations, emergence of new business forms shaped by digital connectivity, and 'wicked' messes. Currently, business school scholarship, research, and curricula are largely geared towards a world of large corporations, stability, and relatively resolvable problems that no longer reflect a ubiquitously connected reality. We question how business school scholars can better address emergent needs and problems 'at the interfaces' where business schools themselves and organizations studied find themselves. Organizer Ian Mitroff (University of California, Berkeley) will argue that 'wicked messes' need to be foundational in business school curricula and scholarship. Sandra Waddock (Boston College) will discuss how wicked messes like climate change, inequality, sustainability, and jobs creation should influence research and curricula. Anne Tsui (University of Notre Dame, former AOM President) will share the work of a group of 24 leading scholars who have developed "A Vision of Responsible Research in Business and Management" white paper. Gerald F. Davis (University of Michigan) will discuss the business scholarship/education implications of increasingly irrelevant large corporations. Stella Nkomo (University of Pretoria) will add a perspective from the global South since the current debate has emanated from the global North. Stuart Hart (University of Vermont) will argue that although most major business schools have added initiatives, centers, or programs focused on sustainability, corporate citizenship, or social entrepreneurship, these issues are still insufficiently integrated. Robert E. Quinn (University of Michigan) will serve as discussant and synthesizer for the panel.
    Search Terms: Busininess Schools | Wicked Problems | Scholarship transformation
    Sandra Waddock
    Galligan Chair of Strategy
    Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility
    Professor of Management

    Boston College
    Carroll School of Management
    Chestnut Hill, MA 02467  USA

    617-552-0477
    Twitter:  @SandraWaddock and @IntellectShaman

    See my books, Healing the World: Today's Shamans as Difference Makers. Greenleaf, 2017. 
    and
    Intellectual Shamans:  Management Academics Making a Difference (Cambridge University Press, 2015) on Amazon or from Cambridge.