CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES (CMS)

• Rising precarity in the global economy and its impact on the wellbeing of workers, their families and communities 
• Climate, epistemic, economic, geographical, gender, racial and other kinds of injustice and inequality that marginalize, exclude, and oppress workers 
• Power asymmetries, exploitative organizational and broader politics, and various forms of violence affecting workplaces and workers 
• Considerations of what ‘putting workers front and center’ would need to truly involve; how can we reimagine workplaces as more caring and nurturing places? 
• The new solidarities resisting the capitalist project in a post-pandemic world, including collective and trade union-based organizing and various forms of worker activism 
• Alternative and new forms of organizing with potential to transform working lives 
• Working conditions in academia, universities, and business schools, and the role of academics and CMS scholars in shaping the future of work 

1. Submissions (theoretical, empirical, and methodological) should be theoretically informed by a critical tradition that challenges mainstream assumptions about the world and all who/that live/s in it. 
2. Submissions (papers and symposia) should clearly relate to a challenge for contemporary workers that has deleterious effects, at planetary, global, societal, community, organizational, or individual level. 
3. Submissions should include suggestions as to what CMS research, education, and/or praxis have to offer to address the issues under consideration, or alternatively how CMS needs to develop conceptually, empirically, methodologically, and/or in the realm of praxis, to help address the issues under consideration inside and outside of our academic communities.