Essays That Reflect, Challenge, and Inspire Action JMS Says is a space for bold, personal reflections on the field of management and organisation studies. These essays are designed to provoke thought, challenge norms and inspire action, without relying on traditional theory or data.
Co-edited by Thomas Roulet and April Wright, and overseen by Associate Editor Dimitrios Georgakakis, JMS Says features contributions from scholars at all career stages, with a special focus on diverse and under-represented voices.
Each essay offers:
A personal lens on a pressing issue
A fresh perspective that challenges conventional wisdom
A clear and actionable message for the scholarly community
Below you’ll find the latest JMS Says. Click to read, reflect and submit your JMS Says proposal here.
By Atefeh Maghzi How do passport inequalities shape academic careers, opportunities, and participation? In this… Read More »Academic Borders and Passport Disadvantage: Reclaiming Lost Dreams, Connections, and Career Horizons
By Gabriel Lomellini In this essay, the author reflects on the often-overlooked role of pleasure… Read More »Joyful Scholarship: Reclaiming Pleasure to Inspire Change in Academia
By Amy L. Kenworthy, Fiona Hurd, and Suzette Dyer In this essay – that speaks… Read More »Navigating Grief: A Call for Loving, Nurturing, and Wholly Generative Academic Friendships
By Katrin Heucher, Rouven Kanitz and Hannes Leroy In this essay, the authors reflect on… Read More »From Dark Alleys into the University Light: Dilemmas of Academic Consulting
By Timothy J. Vogus Tim Vogus uses personal experience and scholarship to show how the… Read More »Creating a Neuroinclusive Profession: Overcoming the Double Empathy Problem
By Ajai Gaur and Chinmay Pattnaik Volunteer labour keeps journals, conferences, and academic communities running.… Read More »What’s in it for me? Reinvigorating the Spirit of Volunteerism in Management Academia
By Howard Jean-Denis This auto-ethnographic essay demonstrates the relationship between cultural identity and research design… Read More »Learning About Local Culture to Research Developing Markets: How I Rediscovered the Importance of Lakou in Haiti
By Tina Miedtank, Stephanie E. Raible and Marleen Wierenga Tina Miedtank, Stephanie Raible and Marleen… Read More »Unleashing the Impact Potential of Early-Career Researchers: Recognizing the Value of Micro-Level Impact
By Wafa Ben Khaled and Alessandro Ghio What happens when diversity in academia becomes a… Read More »Beancounting Diversity in Business Schools
By Erica Pimentel and Soraya Bel Hadj Ali How does motherhood shape the academic experience?… Read More »A Mother’s Work is Never Done: On Being a Mother in Academia
By Paul Hibbert Paul Hibbert reflects on the hidden vulnerabilities that shape academic life but… Read More »On Vulnerability, Coming Out and Hiding
By Gavin Schwarz and David Bouckenooghe In Pay It Forward and Free Your Data! Gavin… Read More »Pay It Forward and Free Your Data! Fear in the Way of Data Sharing in Management Research
By Catherine Cassell What image comes to mind when you think of a Business School… Read More »Who Would Be a Dean? Demonising Deans and the Question of Role Modelling Leadership in Business Schools
By Thomas J. Fewer In this essay, Thomas J. Fewer reflects on the transformative potential… Read More »The Road Less Travelled: Sabbaticals as Pathways for Engagement and Impact
By Joel Bothello and Leandro Bonfim In this essay, Joel Bothello and Leandro Bonfim call… Read More »Marginalized Communities and the Problem of Research Extraction
By Stephan Manning Writing compelling and impactful academic articles presents a significant challenge. To capture… Read More »Creating Powerful Stories: What Scholars Can Learn from Filmmakers
Garima Sharma and Vivek Soundararajan This essay examines the challenges of translating management research into… Read More »Inequalities in Research Translation: Toward More Equitable Pathways to Impact
By Andrea Prothero Decades of experience reveal how entrenched sexism, harassment, and unequal treatment continue… Read More »Me, the Patriarchy, and the Business School
By Onna Malou van den Broek, Lucrezia Nava, Lucie Baudoin, Simone Carmine, and Nicholas Poggioli … Read More »Imagining a Place for Sustainability Management: An Early Career Call for Action
In this essay, we discuss an underexplored and consequential aspect of management scholarship that we… Read More »Making a Niche: The Marketization of Management Research and the Rise of ‘Knowledge Branding’