A Manifesto for the Future of Management Studies
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7433/s128.2025.01Keywords:
managementAbstract
The project of a Manifesto for Management Studies stems from the need
to foster a deep and shared reflection, both within and beyond our scholarly
community, on the current and future challenges of our discipline. The goal
is to identify new trajectories and perspectives of evolution of management
thought and research (whether thematic, methodological, or of a different
nature), in line with the emerging demands of business practice and, more
broadly, of society... to be continued
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