From the Editors—Studying the Ongoing Change at the Individual Level: Who Am I (Becoming) as a Management Educator and Researcher?

Abstract

Individual academics, business schools and universities, and institutions associated with the field of management learning and education are facing a transforming world as countries grapple with, and begin to recover from, the COVID-19 pandemic. At the individual level, important questions are opening up for faculty along the lines of “Who am I now as an academic—and what might I become?” At the organizational level, academic departments, business schools, and universities must attend to fundamental questions such as “How might we better organize the business of the business school in a transforming world?” Finally, at the institutional level of the field of management education, accreditation bodies and professional membership associations and their journals are asking “Where should the field go from here, and what role might new and existing institutions play as the field evolves?” In a series of “From the Editors” pieces published across our three-year term, our editorial team plans to engage with these important questions and explore the individual-level, organizational-level, and institutional-level implications of our transforming world for management learning and education.