TY - JOUR
T1 - Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Global Migration and its Implications for Business School Teaching
AU - Hajro, Aida
AU - Zilinskaite, Milda
AU - Baldassari, Paul
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Migration is a pressing global phenomenon, interconnected with human rights, sustainability, economic development, and geopolitics. It has important implications for the activities, strategies, structures, and decision-making processes of firms. Yet despite its undeniable impact on management, migration has been all-but ignored in business school teaching curricula. In this essay, we seek to make two contributions. First, we clarify the grounds for integrating migration issues into management education. Second, we delineate how to achieve this. Specifically, we suggest that teaching migration as a threshold concept can provide a way to reshape students’ ways of thinking about the complex and often paradoxical relationships between companies, nation states, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, and industry.
AB - Migration is a pressing global phenomenon, interconnected with human rights, sustainability, economic development, and geopolitics. It has important implications for the activities, strategies, structures, and decision-making processes of firms. Yet despite its undeniable impact on management, migration has been all-but ignored in business school teaching curricula. In this essay, we seek to make two contributions. First, we clarify the grounds for integrating migration issues into management education. Second, we delineate how to achieve this. Specifically, we suggest that teaching migration as a threshold concept can provide a way to reshape students’ ways of thinking about the complex and often paradoxical relationships between companies, nation states, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, and industry.
U2 - 10.5465/amle.2020.0260
DO - 10.5465/amle.2020.0260
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1537-260X
VL - 21
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Academy of Management Learning & Education
JF - Academy of Management Learning & Education
IS - 1
ER -