Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Global Migration and Its Implications for Business School Teaching

Abstract

Migration is a pressing global phenomenon, interconnected with human rights, sustainability, economic development, and geopolitics. It has important implications for the activities, strategies, structures, and decision-making processes of firms. Yet despite its undeniable impact on management, migration has been all but ignored in business school teaching curricula. In this essay, we seek to make two contributions. First, we clarify the grounds for integrating migration issues into management education. Second, we delineate how to achieve this. Specifically, we suggest that teaching migration as a threshold concept can provide a way to reshape students’ ways of thinking about the complex and often paradoxical relationships between companies, nation states, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, and industry. 移民是一个不容忽视的全球现象,与人权,可持续发展,经济发展以及地缘政治密切相关。它对企业的经营、战略、架构和决策过程具有重要的意义。然而,尽管移民现象对管理具有无可争辩的影响,但商学院的教学课程却常常将其忽略。在这篇文章中,我们试图在两方面提出一些见解。首先,我们理清了将移民问题纳入管理学教学的根本原因。第二,我们详述了如何实践。具体而言,我们建议将移民现象作为阈值概念来进行教学,这样可以帮助学生重新思考公司、民族国家、政府间组织、民间社会和行业之间复杂且经常矛盾的关系的方式。 关键词:移民,管理教育,阈值概念,商业与社会

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