In an interview, Helen George, Director of Creative Economy and a UNESCO expert in sustainable development and cultural governance, talked about the problems, dilemmas and possibilities she has ...encountered in her social enterprise, and other work, with Indigenous communities. George said as she has worked in the arts and cultural sector, it is cultural value together with economic value that are the important components and underlying essence of sustainability. Their experience is that cultural value plus economic value equals sustainability. This approach results in greater value creation producing not only greater economic outcomes but also social and cultural outcomes. Often addressing sustainable development either through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), aid, charitable or government programs the action is made from an external viewpoint of what is a perceived solution to a perceived problem. That tends to result in little to no value created or at least little to no value created for the key project beneficiaries. The values of the key beneficiaries must be the basis of the purposeful action.
Purpose
This paper seeks to discuss the role of business academics and business schools in the development of leaders able to respond to climate change and sustainability challenges.
...Design/methodology/approach
The paper captures contributions made during a panel discussion at the First Academic Symposium on Leadership for Climate Change and Sustainability held at La Trobe University, Melbourne in February 2011. The Symposium preceded the 10th General Assembly of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI) held in Melbourne and the authors are from GRLI partner organisations.
Findings
There is a pressing need for business schools to focus on the development of personal and leadership skills, to draw staff from outside the traditional business disciplines and to reflect the gender and race diversity of the population in which they are located. The change required in business education to develop leaders who can respond to climate change and sustainability challenges is as significant as the changes needed to the way businesses operate.
Practical implications
The paper identifies changes required in business leadership and outlines key elements of change needed in business education. It assists business school leaders in articulating the business case for business schools to address these issues and navigate potential barriers.
Originality/value
The paper brings together the views of five professors from a different disciplinary background (accounting, critical management, organisational behaviour, organisational design and sociology) with leadership positions in business schools and universities.
In this paper we argue for a dialectical understanding of vampirism, capital, and time, which involves placing each of these elements in tension, both internally and in relation to each other. ...Starting from Marx's comments on the vampiric nature of capital, we draw out the importance of time in his argument. Rather than simply adding time to vampires and capital, we argue for a critical rethinking of time which, responding to Bergson, poses a 'dialectic of duration' in which time is neither simply continuous nor discontinuous. Drawing on vampire literature and film, we trace this dialectic of duration through the erratic feeding habits of vampires, of capital, and of contemporary producers and consumers. Reflecting on the meaning of time for Marx and for capital, we raise questions about resistance and the future, and conclude by outlining a temporal dialectic of capital that stresses both the reproductive risk and the political promise of the vampire.
Purpose This paper seeks to present an analysis of the historical emergence of international business and management studies IBMS within the context of the postWorld War II USA. It seeks to show how ...certain conditions of this time and place shaped the orientation of foundational IBMS texts and set a course for the subsequent development of the field. Designmethodologyapproach The approach is primarily conceptual. The paper pursues both a historical analysis and a close reading of foundational texts within IBMS. It first examines the key conditions for the emergence of IBMS including the internationalization of the US economy and businesses the Cold War and perceived expansion of Soviet interests and finally decolonisation processes around the world. These are interrelated aspects of a commercialmilitarypolitical complex, which simultaneously enabled and constrained the emergence of IBMS scholarship. The paper moves on to link these conditions to two seminal IBMS texts. Findings The paper reveals the localised and particular conditions that surrounded the emergence of IBMS and how IBMS was constituted to serve particular and localised interests associated with those conditions. Originalityvalue The paper's originality and value lie in a unique historical and discursive analysis of the conditions for the emergence of IBMS that were, in part, instrumental in the development of the field. It thus responds to calls for a historical turn in International Business scholarship.
Purpose - Submitted in the form of a manifesto, this article seeks to make a call to scholars in international management and business studies to embrace post-colonial theory and to allow it to ...provide an interrogation of the ontological, epistemological, methodological and institutional resources currently dominating the field.Design methodology approach - A manifesto approach is adopted in providing a series of deliberately provocative principles which it seeks to have the field adopt.Findings - The paper finds the field to be currently imprisoned within a limited and limiting paradigmatic and institutional location and offers the resources of post-colonial theory as a way to interrogate and reconfigure it.Research limitations implications - The paper points to the limitations of the field and provides the grounds for a radical reconfiguration across all aspects of its knowledge production, dissemination and research practice.Practical implications - The paper offers practical steps which the field can take to reconfigure itself more appropriately in terms of its various research commitments and its institutional frame.Originality value - This article offers an original assessment of the orthodoxy currently controlling and disciplining the field, presented in the relatively novel and challenging form of a manifesto.
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