The reflexive impotence and neoliberal neurosis of the responsible business school

Business schools need to change in front of social and environmental crises that threaten humanity itself. The chapter argues that the responsible turn of business school curriculum increasingly acknowledges these threats but is unable to bring forth any radical or transformative systemic actions or imaginations. It shows how two notions, reflexive impotence and neoliberal neurosis are holding back imaginations of both faculty and student in terms of alternative futures and systemic change. The chapter suggests some moderate, but not fully pragmatic, seeds of curricular change that builds on the rejection of restoring capitalism to a fictitious past and instead opening for discussions how to radically transform capitalism toward more utopian futures.