While the world might recover from the Wuhan, China-based 2020 novel coronavirus, it is likely that the virus will leave the world governance system in a different state. Globalization as we knew it is over and a new world order will emerge, with dramatic consequences to our field. Globalization involves the movement of people, information,…
Management and Organizational Science (MOS), a pillar of the Social, Behavioral and Economic field, is a young science. Nonetheless, it has moved rapidly from an initial focus purely on practice (previous to the reports by the Ford and Carnegie Foundations in the 1960s) to its current state where it relies on more of a “pure…
I was deeply honored to be the recipient of the 2021 Responsible Research in Management Award from the Academy of Management Fellows Group and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) for my 2020 book Better, Not Perfect: Moving Toward Maximum Sustainable Goodness (2020). Better focuses on helping the reader be better…
Chinese Business Deans’ Summit on Responsible Research Based on news in the IACMR’s (www.iacmr.org) December 2019 issue of Bimonthly Briefing, and the Chinese websites of Peking University Guanghua School of Management, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, and Zhejiang University School of Management Business and management schools worldwide should make…
This post was originally published on Network for Business Sustainability Earlier this month, my son was tested for his next belt at the local karate dojo. For a karate learner, every test is a special occasion as they look to advance in belt colours: each signifying progress (and a rank). As a father, these occasions…
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The Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) has made significant progress and impacts since its establishment. There have been extensive discussions and studies on the urgency, goals, and possible actions in relation to RRBM at both individual business schools and management research community by and large. However, there seems to be a…
Business schools could play a crucial role in helping governments prepare for the next pandemic by developing the next generation of the modelling and simulation community. Simulation modelling is an area of teaching and research found in many elite business schools. COVID-19 looks set to be the worst infectious disease pandemic of a generation in…
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