What Is the Future of Future Making in Management Research?

Journal of Management Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 9, 2025

Abstract Future making, the work of enacting yet‐to‐come by making sense and giving form to imaginings future, has become topical in management studies lately. Triggered pressing societal challenges like climate change, inequality threatened democratic institutions vis‐à‐vis a ‘crisis mode’, scholars have started engage with future as an open‐ended temporal category, both object analysis happening around organizations, well way scholarly inquiry. This Point‐Counterpoint debate about research comes right on time, future‐making seems be at crossroads, potentially heading bright – or not so future. The contributions this collectively ask: What is research, they could more different pathways envisage.

Language: Английский

Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation

Journal of Management Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 14, 2025

Abstract Achieving system‐level change for climate transitions is needed, and incremental efforts are widely considered insufficient. Drawing on neo‐Schumpeterian, cultural‐institutionalist, post‐structuralist theories, this Point‐Counterpoint debate explores the systemic barriers including neoliberal policies, corporate hegemony, growth‐driven cultural logics which inhibit kind of that needed to mitigate increasingly devastating climatic conditions. Our contributors propose a range potential solutions may break these deliver required radical change. These include further better democratization, quixotic institutional work so as undermine dominant templates, use various counter‐hegemonic practices, development alternative forms organizing. In introduction, we explore contact departure points between three positions offer some critical reflections future research questions idea

Language: Английский