Author Description

How do managers engage in a time of complexity? In the face of anthropogenic climate change, rising socio-economic inequality, and increased authoritarianism, managers are working in highly networked and vastly complex global environments. Beyond the old command-and-control models, managers must rethink every aspect of strategy—and the time for completing such reconsideration is running out. This book probes how the prevailing strategic frameworks perform given our most pressing twenty-first-century challenges. Through each chapter, the authors question conventional paradigms and explore one of the most gnawing questions in contemporary management: Can managers manage the complex objects far beyond our control, or must we manage within their contexts? And, paradoxically, will this result in the end of managerialism, or will we find ourselves in increasingly authoritarian contexts? As part of an ongoing series on ethics and management, this book is the result of a collective, collaborative effort by graduate students and faculty at the American University of Paris. Albert Cath and Robert Earhart teach management at the American University of Paris. They are the co-editors of the first book in this series, A Dress Rehearsal: Strategizing Sustainability in a Post Covid-19 World.