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Delbridge, R., Zietsma, C., Suddaby, R., Chowdhury, R. and Wickert, C. (2025), Atlas Unplugged: Re-Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society. Journal of Management Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.70047

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Welcome to Revise and Resubmit 🎧📚 — the podcast where journal articles stop whispering from behind paywalls and start talking back to the real world.

Tonight, we tune into a very different kind of atlas. Not the one that tells you where to go, but the one that dares to ask why the world is built this way at all. 🌍❓

The paper on the table:
“Atlas Unplugged: Re-Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society”
by Rick Delbridge, Charlene Zietsma, Roy Suddaby, Rashedur Chowdhury, and Christopher Wickert. ✍️✨

Published in the Journal of Management Studies — yes, that prestigious, field-defining, FT50-listed journal that sets the bar for what counts as serious management scholarship. 🏛️⭐

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged imagined a world where heroic individuals carry a selfish, efficient capitalism on their shoulders. This Special Issue does something bolder: it unplugs that atlas. It pulls out the wires, looks at the circuitry, and asks:
What if capitalism isn’t a neutral machine of freedom and progress, but a system that can amplify violence, racism, inequality, and environmental crisis? ⚡💥

Across this issue, the authors and contributors invite us to listen to voices that classic libertarian narratives mute:

• Indigenous views of capitalism that foreground land, community, and reciprocity 🪶

• The ethics of care, where responsibility replaces raw self-interest 🤝

• Self-determination theory, asking what humans need to truly thrive, not just produce 🧠

• The logic of marketization, that slippery slope where everything becomes a product with a price tag 🏷️

Then they turn the lens again, combining place and intersectionality like two powerful spotlights.
Place says: look at the ground under your feet — history, politics, community, geography.
Intersectionality says: look at how power cuts through race, class, gender, identity.
Together, they map labour markets, global value chains, and access to resources in a way that makes capitalism look less like a natural law, and more like a system that was built — and can be rebuilt. 🧩🔧

So in this episode of Revise and Resubmit, we’re not just summarizing a paper. We’re asking:
If management studies can reimagine capitalism, what kind of capitalism could exist beyond extraction, beyond domination, beyond the shrug of “that’s just how markets work”? 🤔

Huge thanks to the authors Rick Delbridge, Charlene Zietsma, Roy Suddaby, Rashedur Chowdhury, and Christopher Wickert, and to the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. for this important contribution in the Journal of Management Studies (FT50). 🙏📖

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