Making management (more) relevant: breaking down disciplinary walls and pursuing neglected independent variables

Abzug, R., Adewale, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7502-2875, André, R., Derfus, P., Hedges, P. and Shymko, Y. (2020) Making management (more) relevant: breaking down disciplinary walls and pursuing neglected independent variables. Journal of Management Education, 44 (5). pp. 651-662. ISSN 1052-5629 doi: 10.1177/1052562920934155

Abstract/Summary

The Walls Project encourages educators to broaden management teaching beyond individual and organizational variables and outcomes to systemic variables and outcomes. Its focus is on discovering independent variables that have social and environmental impacts and are currently neglected. Founded by six individuals who met at a RMLE UnConference in 2017,the Project decided to share pedagogical materials, examine them for commonalities, and present their findings at the MOBTC conference in 2019. This article summarizes these materials with an eye to revealing several variables of consequence, such as socioeconomic status and belief in economic growth, which are studied and taught infrequently in business schools. We suggest that researchers examine business curricula for similar neglected variables, study their impact across systems levels, and then develop them pedagogically to enhance management education that has a social and environmental impact.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/91460
Identification Number/DOI	10.1177/1052562920934155
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Digitalisation, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Publisher	SAGE
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