ABSTRACT
A prerequisite for the constitution of a critical corpus immune to hijacking by business-as-usual is to change the institutional conditions of production, selection and attrition of research. If a process to achieve such conditions were to be set in motion, it would remain to be seen the extent to which the intellectual software of management researchers must also be transformed to be able to produce, prior to any disciplinary filtering, critical propositions immune to hijacking. Reorienting management knowledge in a business-for-society direction is a more complicated task than a merely mechanical intervention. Society-for-business is pre-inscribed in the genome of managerial thought to such a degree that it is very difficult to get rid of. The relationships between the state and society are of the order of democracy. Those who bind the company to society are primarily market-oriented and service-oriented.
