AOM General Meeting PDW: Reconceiving and re-invigorating the role of reason in management learning and education
This is an event connected to a special issue of AMLE on Rationality and Management Learning and Education. Details can be found here: http://aom.org/uploadedFiles/Publications/AMLE/SI_Call_for_Papers_Rationality.pdf
The Special Issue poses the following questions:
- In what sense is rational action the aim for management learning and education?
- How do we cultivate rational managers and workplaces?
- In studying management learning and education, what alternative conceptions of rationality emerge?
These questions have gained renewed importance in the age of fake news; information and propaganda warfare coupled with increasingly digitalized management and decision support systems as well as developments in artificial intelligence. Coupled with these is are growing questions about the efficacy of evidence-based approaches and critiques of overly rationalistic management education formats and management tools.
Critiques of rationality in management take a number of forms, from outright rejection through embrace of irrationality; through the redevelopment of alternative forms of knowing such as phronesis; and through developments in areas such as behavioural economics; or in philosophy, aimed either at the recovery of rationality or at developments of its underlying ideas.
This Special Issue seeks to critically engage with this debate. In asking whether rational action can be an (or “the”) aim for management learning and education, we invite empirical and conceptual contributions that develop or help re-evaluate the persuasiveness of the criticism of the traditional picture of rational management, as well as manuscripts reconceiving of rational management, such that it can overcome or circumvent these objections. We are therefore also looking for contributions that explore wider conceptions of reason which develop a fuller and more embodied understanding of human conduct in the context of management learning and education. In asking how rational managers and workplaces may be cultivated, we also invite papers that develop learning and education strategies or pedagogies.
The PDW will consist of two parts:
Part 1: Panel discussion on Rationality and Management Learning and Education.
No registration required.
Part 2: Paper development roundtables
Submission of Extended Abstracts/Short Papers in line with the Special Issue theme:
Deadline for PDW roundtable manuscript submission: July 20, 2018.
Acceptance of a paper for the PDW is no guarantee for acceptance of the paper for publication in the special issue.
Please submit your abstract/paper