CLIMATE-PROOFING MANAGEMENT RESEARCH.

Climate change presents a variety of doomsday scenarios for human society, including more extreme and frequent storms, droughts, heatwaves and fires, the heating and acidification of oceans, rising sea levels, biodiversity decline, food shortages, as well as exacerbating geopolitical tensions and conflicts.While many corporations and communities are already anticipating and planning for various climate impacts, we argue that much management research is in denial of the profound consequences of a worsening climate crisis. This is evident in the relative neglect of climate change in our research and teaching and we argue reflects how management theories legitimize the continuation of business as usual. We suggest that if the management academy is to maintain relevance in a context of worsening climate change, then we need to rethink the focus of our research and engage with newand emerging literatures and concepts that will better enable societies to undertake the complex processes of climatemitigation, adaptation, and the limitation of human suffering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]