Academics not willing or not able to serve society as thought leaders?

Anyone who seriously engages with the sustainability crisis will see that thought leadership in transforming society to a sustainable form is an important means to a profound purpose (end) for our lives, not merely a means to be distinctive, or to gain prominence or competitive position, or an end in itself. This is a part of the very mindset that is increasingly outmoded in society! Is not our scholarship and educational work to be part of the solution of overburdening our habitat whilst not resolving inequity and poverty for so many of our fellow humans? Let's not allow so-called science to blind to the obvious need for rightness in our relationship with Nature and the eco-sub-systems of which we are an interdependent part.

How should we spend precious and limited intellectual effort and public funds in management education? For business interests, or for the betterment of society? Are we to be handmaidens or pathmakers? (in the words of Paul Raskin). Do we serve society, or merely serve up consumers ?

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