Sathish, C. and Harzing AW 2026. Let’s form a positive academia collective transformation: Re-imagining our academic values and interactions. Management Learning. 57 (2), pp. 372-389. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076251351089
| Title | Let’s form a positive academia collective transformation: Re-imagining our academic values and interactions |
|---|---|
| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Sathish, C. and Harzing AW |
| Abstract | As Management academics, we could play a critical role in tackling the existential threats that our societies are facing by using our expertise in organizing resources and people to get things done. Instead, we seem to be stuck in an endless cycle of self-critique on the state of our academic discipline. In this provocation essay, we disrupt this vicious cycle by laying the foundation for an academic heterotopia through a concrete, comprehensive, and coherent re-imagination of both our academic values and our interactions. Discarding the convenient falsehood that as academics we are merely unwilling victims of neoliberalism and all-powerful managers, we instead embrace the inconvenient truth that we have co-created the current state of academia. We therefore urge all of us to take back freedom and invest our individual and collective efforts into crafting a more positive academia by joining our PACT (Positive Academia Collective Transformation). |
| Keywords | Academic interactions, academic values, action, care, collegiality, dialogue, heterotopia, holistic careers, impact, research process, research quality, transformation, voice |
| Journal | Management Learning |
| Journal citation | 57 (2), pp. 372-389 |
| ISSN | 1350-5076 |
| 1461-7307 | |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications |
| Publisher's version | License CC BY-NC 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076251351089 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published online | 17 Jul 2025 |
| Published in print | 2026 |