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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.
“Cuts through the rhetoric and the fantasy to the realities of today's troubled university sector. This clearly written, well-informed and intelligent book shows why older visions for business schools no longer work - but a democratic future is possible”, Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney and author of The Good University
“This book shows how and why we should care about building a good business school: not for the use of the current oppressive management systems, but for the sake of a future where public value is cherished, prosperity is shared, and where management is a civic practice”, Monika Kostera, University of Warsaw and author of The University of Hope
Rhodes and Pullen cut through the rhetoric and the fantasy to the realities of today's troubled university sector. This clearly written, well-informed and intelligent book shows why older visions for business schools no longer work - but a democratic future is possible.
Raewyn Connell, Professor Emerita of Education at the University of Sydney, author of The Good University
This book shows how and why we should care about building a good business school: not for the use of the current oppressive management systems, but for the sake of a future where public value is cherished, prosperity is shared, and where management is a civic practice.
Monika Kostera, Professor Ordinaria of Economics and the Humanities, University of Warsaw, author of The University of Hope
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).
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