Editorial: Special Issue on Transforming Management Research & Education (original) (raw)

Irish Journal of Management Irish Journal of Management • 35(2) • 2016 • 109-113 DOI: 10.1515/ijm-2016-0008 * E-mail: Graham.Heaslip@nuim.ie Graham Heaslip 1 *, Robert Galavan 2 and Anne Sigismund Huff 2 1 School of Business, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland 2 School of Business, Maynooth University, Ireland Editorial Introduction In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, and the looming environmental crisis, management researchers have increasingly addressed the fundamental cultural, economic and organisational challenges that societies across the world are facing. The unifying theme from the 2012 conference was ‘transformation’: what new methodologies, theory-building approaches and areas of investigation does the management academy need to create value for our stakeholders. Similarly, there is a need to respond to repeated calls for the renewal of management education and practice. At a time when management may be associated with corporate greed and unethical b...