The Good Business School

The Political Imperative of Management in the 21st Century
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5090-9
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

What makes a ‘good’ business school amid culture wars, inequality, and rising right-wing populism? This book argues that business schools cannot hide behind technocratic or scholarly neutrality. As social impact and stakeholder capitalism moved from boardrooms into lecture theatres, they became lightning rods in political battles over expertise, identity, and power.

From politicising ‘wokeness’ to state intrusion into academic freedom, the struggle is no longer rigour versus relevance but what kind of institution business schools choose to be. This book calls for a democratically engaged business school grounded in public value, committed to intellectual pluralism, and oriented toward shared prosperity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rhodes, Carl

Pullen, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Are Professors the Enemy?

2. The Business School and its Discontents

3. Social Impact and the Woke Business School

4. The Political Imperative of the Good Business School

Coda: The Promise of the Democratic Business School

Über Autor(innen)

Rhodes, Carl
Carl Rhodes is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Technology Sydney. He researches the ethical and democratic dimensions of business and work. Carl regularly writes for the mainstream and independent press on issues related to ethics, politics and the economy.

Carl Rhodes is Professor of Business and Society and former Dean at the University of Technology Sydney Business School, Australia.

Alison Pullen is Professor of Feminist Organization Studies at Macquarie Business School, Australia and Australia and Editor of Feminism and Organization (Bristol University Press).