Resumen de Alternative economic futures: : A research agenda for progressive management scholarship

Paul S. Adler

• The papers in this Symposium reflect a growing body of work within and around the Academy of Management among scholars and activists who share a double conviction that (a) the socioeconomic structures that dominate the world today can and should be replaced by ones that better support human flourishing, and (b) the contours of more appropriate structures are already emerging. Members of this loose community of scholars and activists have different views of the root causes of the current structures’ inadequacy, and different views on what kinds of alternatives are the most promising, but we share a sense of urgency in questioning the prevailing political-economic (dis-)order. This introduction offers some thoughts on an agenda of research that might guide the work of this emerging community of progressive management scholarship.