The purpose of business organizations and business schools revisited

ROCHA HECTOR; PIRSON, MICHAEL; SUDDABY, ROY

SEATTLE

Congreso; AOM CONFERENCE; 2022

Both the Covid-19 crisis and the emergence of innovative business models offer a powerful signal that the foundational assumptions of capitalism are increasingly in doubt. Business schools, however, appear to be followers rather than leaders in this historical moment of social change. While citizens, consumers and businesses are experimenting with new models of capitalism premised on balancing profits with social purpose and the private, public, and plural sectors (Mintzberg, 2015), business schools have been slow to change and appear to be struggling with their identity and purpose. But, What might be the foundational values of a post-pandemic market system? What might be the purpose of business organizations in a post-pandemic scenario? What would a post-pandemic business school look like? The aim of this Symposium is to explore these questions in conversation with four thought thinkers and prominent innovators of management education and business practice.