Recently, Daniel Nyberg and I were invited to contribute a short essay to the Journal of Management Inquiry as part of a themed discussion on ‘Climate Action Research: What’s Holding Us Back?’. Our contribution is reproduced below and argues that business and management scholarship has been particularly slow in focusing on the issue of anthropogenic climate disruption. In the essay we outline why this is and the need for management scholars to broaden their perspective on the relationship between corporate capitalism and the existential threats that humanity now faces in the climate era.