Ford, Harding and Learmonth in their paper in the March 2010 special issue of the British Journal of Management ask ‘who is it that would make business schools more critical?’ Commenting on their paper, I argue that although they raise a very important question they do not deliver rigorous answers because their critical reflexive gaze fails to fall upon the mechanisms of hierarchy and exclusion that operate within the critical management studies (CMS) community. First the reflexivity debate in CMS and Ford, Harding and Learmonth's contribution to this debate is explored. Next institutionalized orthodoxies in CMS, such as the tendency to close ranks for those with different perspectives and the lack of demographic diversity, are problematized, and Ford, Harding and Learmonth's contribution is situated across these orthodoxies. Finally, the commentary offers some alternatives and solutions for CMS to take the step further from verbalism to critical praxis. It is suggested that the solution lies in exercising critical self-reflection which acknowledges the embeddedness of CMS in structures and relations of power and hegemony and recognizes the role of CMS scholars in sustaining and reproducing these structures in their own institutions and communities.

Publication year: 2011
Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 January 2011

John, Robinson , Sarah, Burch , Sonia, Talwar , Meg, O'Shea , Mike, Walsh

This paper describes recent progress in the utilization of participatory scenario-based backcasting approaches to sustainability research that blend quantitative and qualitative analyses in order to explore alternative climate change futures, as undertaken in a range of academic, government, and private sector projects in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.

La Chaire Responsabilité Sociale de l'Entreprise de l'École Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon (France)
et
The Academy of Business in Society
(EABIS)
organisent

Le Symposium
« Responsabilité Sociale de l'Entreprise et Innovation »les 6 et 7 Avril 2011
Dijon, France
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Publication year: 2010
Source: Futures, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 14 December 2010

Nando, Hamker , Rafael, Ziegler

This paper examines the idea of an online collaborative competition for solutions to environmental and social problems. It asks three basic questions: What is a collaborative competition?