scholarly journals Reconsidering the rigour-relevance gap: the need for contextualised research in risk societies

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Galavan ◽  
Denis Harrington ◽  
Felicity Kelliher
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Business School ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper addresses the debate on rigour and relevance in management research to identify barriers to progress and identify the challenges and opportunities in moving forward. We identify strong calls from both North American and European literatures for a move to close this gap. It has, however, been 20 years since Hambrick asked scholars ‘What if the academy actually mattered?’ during his Presidential address to the Academy of Management. Despite both the time and the consistency of calls, there has been only modest progress in closing this rigour-relevance gap. We argue that this is not because of any lack of willingness or capacity but is shaped by systemic issues. We find the narrative of the business school framed as either professional or social sciences a core issue. Each brings with them a tradition of different ontological perspectives and epistemological processes, protected by gatekeepers, which supports, even if unintentionally, the maintenance of the gap. We go on to discuss the challenge of management education and research in a postmodern context, the need to examine our conception of rigour, and to challenge the definition of management as a profession given its strategic win-lose orientation. We conclude with a discussion on the relationship between society and business and lay out the challenges ahead for richly contextualised scholarly work that may be defined as both rigorous and relevant.

Opportunities and Challenges for CSR Mainstreaming in Business Schools

2018 ◽  
pp. 613-643
Author(s):  
Dima Jamali ◽  
Hanin Abdallah ◽  
Farah Matar
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Profit Maximization ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Paradigmatic Change

Extant literature has highlighted that business schools have been accused of promoting an educational ethos that emphasizes shareholder value and the pursuit of short-term profits and thereby preparing overly competitive future generations interested in profit maximization. This paper highlights the importance of integrating CSR into the mainstream of business schools' curricula, arguing for the responsible role that business schools should play but also emphasizing the strategic case for such integration. The paper analyzes the main challenges and opportunities that both hinder and facilitate mainstreaming of CSR at the heart of the business school curriculum and the role that the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) can potentially play in this regard. The paper illustrates these drivers and constraints in the context of one specific business school in Lebanon that has successfully experimented with CSR mainstreaming, leading to a nuanced reflection on the possibilities of a real paradigmatic change in the context of higher management education at this critical juncture and what it is going to take to catalyze a real transformation beyond “bells and whistles” and mere rhetoric.

Mainstreaming Corporate Social Responsibility at the Core of the Business School Curriculum

2012 ◽  
pp. 531-545
Author(s):  
Dima Jamali ◽  
Hanin Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Business School ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Corporate Social

This book chapter will make the case that corporate social responsibility (CSR) mainstreaming is an imperative to promote integrity and alleviate the strong entrenchment of utilitarian perspectives permeating management education (Ghoshal, 2005). The chapter argues that CSR mainstreaming should be anchored in the context of a vision for responsibility at the level of the School and that, starting with visioning and strategizing, business schools have to assume a more proactive role in shaping a new generation of leaders, capable of managing the complex challenges that lie at the interface of business and society. The chapter highlights challenges and opportunities in this respect and the critical role of the UN Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) in helping in this reorientation. The book chapter tackles these two interrelated themes systematically, and illustrate with the case of the Olayan School of Business, a leading business school in the Middle East.

Legal Uses of Anthropology in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Audren ◽  
Laetitia Guerlain
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Legal Positivism ◽  
Legal Anthropology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter sheds light on the long-standing history of the relationship between law and the human and social sciences in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France. This story has often been reduced to its most recent and academic development, that is, legal anthropology. However, focusing on this strictly contemporary, academic definition of anthropology risks overlooking the many and varied ways of thinking that, over the past two centuries and more, have shaped the relationship between law and the study of humanity. The authors suggest that such an approach obscures the depth and the variety of forms that this relationship took over time. This chapter documents the various ways that legal scholars in France—over the course of two centuries marked by the rise of codification and legal positivism—drew upon history, philology, ethnology, physical anthropology, and sociology, all in the pursuit of a more profound understanding of homo juridicus.

scholarly journals Reconstructing the Notion of Nationalism: Conversations About Women and Nationalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Iqraa Runi Aprilia ◽  
Ruth Indiah Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Contemporary feminists in Indonesia do not yet have questions about nationalism, since the conversation about nationalism has been considered final at the beginning of Indonesian independence. In fact, in terms of contemporary analysis, women have problems with nationalism, when the definition of nationalism is dominated by the study of political science that is male-view biased. By tracing history to contemporary time, the relationship between women and nationalism is dominated by patriarchal interests for the mobilization of power, even if women have an independent political interest. That is why political interests of women are situated marginally in nationalism. But if we use the perspective of the social sciences, as feminist theories, then the notion of nationalism is broader than that of women and the state. We are still less productive in abstracting the relationship between women and citizens in nationalism, while it is a daily practice of women’s struggles both personally and organically. Women have proven to be an active agency to become citizens beyond the mobilization of the state. This paper seeks to arouse feminist questions about nationalism, in order to reveal the role of women who are hidden in nationalism.  </p>

scholarly journals POLITICAL THEORY'S IMAGINATION. A FEW REMARKS ON WIKTOR MARZEC BOOK

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-181
Author(s):  
Magdalena Ozimek
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Fundamental Categories ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Social sciences, understood as critical and not neutral by nature, they should be equipped with specific competencies and sensivity. C.  W. Mills these comptence define as sociological imagination – which is study of the relationship of history and biography, Giddens interpreted it as three basic senses: historical, anthropological, critical. The translation into political science would be a political theories imagination, it consist,, among over things like a: historicity of political phenomena, antisubstansialism, research self-awareness. Definition of political theories imagination I propose in the context of Wiktor Marzec’s paper Rebelion and Reaction, which is a study from field of historical sociology, it’s in itself a lot of inspiration for theorists of politics: research, theoretical and methodological. It is worth considering – in this context – fundamental categories of political science, like political subjectivity and the political, also revalidate in their range.

scholarly journals Stylized Facts and Experimentation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Crabtree
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Causal Relationships ◽  
Stylized Facts ◽  
Exact Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Relationship

In this comment, we clarify and extend Hirschman (2016)’s discussion on ‘stylized facts.’ Our focus is on the relationship between stylized facts and experimentation. Given the continued increase in experimentation across the social sciences, we think that it is important to consider the exact role that experiments play in the production and testing of stylized facts. We make three related contributions here. First, we describe how experiments can both provide new evidence to support existing stylized facts as well as produce new stylized facts. Second, we argue that the stylized facts produced through experimentation differ from other stylized facts. Third, we extend Hirschman (2016)’s definition of ‘stylized facts’ so that it distinguishes between those that describe correlation relationships and those that describe causal relationships.

Opportunities and Challenges for CSR Mainstreaming in Business Schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dima Jamali ◽  
Hanin Abdallah ◽  
Farah Matar
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Profit Maximization ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Paradigmatic Change

Extant literature has highlighted that business schools have been accused of promoting an educational ethos that emphasizes shareholder value and the pursuit of short-term profits and thereby preparing overly competitive future generations interested in profit maximization. This paper highlights the importance of integrating CSR into the mainstream of business schools' curricula, arguing for the responsible role that business schools should play but also emphasizing the strategic case for such integration. The paper analyzes the main challenges and opportunities that both hinder and facilitate mainstreaming of CSR at the heart of the business school curriculum and the role that the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) can potentially play in this regard. The paper illustrates these drivers and constraints in the context of one specific business school in Lebanon that has successfully experimented with CSR mainstreaming, leading to a nuanced reflection on the possibilities of a real paradigmatic change in the context of higher management education at this critical juncture and what it is going to take to catalyze a real transformation beyond “bells and whistles” and mere rhetoric.

Mainstreaming Corporate Social Responsibility at the Core of the Business School Curriculum

2015 ◽  
pp. 276-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dima Jamali ◽  
Hanin Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Profit Maximization ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Core ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Corporate Social

Extant literature has highlighted that business schools have been accused of promoting an educational ethos that emphasizes shareholder value and the pursuit of short-term profits, thereby preparing overly competitive future generations interested in profit maximization. This chapter highlights the importance of integrating CSR into the mainstream of business schools' curricula, arguing for the responsible role that business schools should play and emphasizing the strategic case for such integration. The chapter analyzes the main challenges and opportunities that both hinder and facilitate mainstreaming of CSR at the heart of the business school curriculum and the role that the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) can potentially play as a facilitating factor and driving force. The chapter illustrates these drivers and constraints in the context of one specific business school in Lebanon that has successfully experimented with CSR mainstreaming in recent years.

The development of socio-legal studies in the United Kingdom

Legal Studies ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

There is no agreed definition of socio-legal studies: some use the term broadly to cover the study of law in its social context, but I prefer to use it to refer to the study of the law and legal institutions from the perspectives of the social sciences (viz all the social sciences – not only sociology). The last decade has seen many developments in this enterprise. Many younger academic lawyers became dissatisfied with the traditional type of legal scholarship, which concentrated on the internal consistency of the law and the inter-relationship of different legal rules. They showed great interest in studying the realities of the law in action, the social effects of law and the relationship of law to wider questions of social structure, and naturally turned to the social sciences for assistance.

Concepts of political identity in social sciences

2019 ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Yevhenii Sosniuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Domestic Science ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article is devoted to the analysis of the concepts of political identity in social sciences. The author defines the preconditions for the conceptualization of the notion of “political identity” in various social sciences, examines the main stages of systematic study of political identity, and reveals the specifics of the study of political identity in domestic science. The author provides the definition of political identity and distinguishes its structural components. The prospects for further research are determined, namely, the analysis of varieties of political identities of the population of Ukraine, and the identification of the relationship between the nature of political identities and the dynamics of social transit.

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