Systems, sustainability and society. (From the Editors).

As events of the past year have made increasingly clear, good management must comprise more than the creation of efficient, effective commercial enterprises, more than the identification and emulation of best practices. At its core, the management conversation should be about the efficacy, sustainability and fundamental fairness of human interaction that underpins not just commercial enterprise, but culture, social policy and emerging global realities.

This issue features several important contributions to that conversation. In an article whose genesis predates the past summer's parade of corporate confessions, Henry Mintzberg, Robert Simons and Kunal Basu identify five aspects of current conventional …