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- Bramming, Pia, et al.
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Roundtable: Management of self-management
- 2011
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 11:2, s. 212-224
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- Beverungen, Armin, et al.
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Free work
- 2013
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 1473-2866. ; 13:1, s. 1-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bohm, Steffen, et al.
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No Critique
- 2004
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 1473-2866. ; 4:2, s. 94-100
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bohm, Steffen, et al.
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The atmosphere business
- 2012
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 12:1/2, s. 1-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Burneva, Petya, 1986-
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The Future that is my Present : Temporariness and Insecurity in Swedish Academia
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores the question of what it means to be a temporary academic worker in the business studies discipline in Sweden. It presents how academics’ temporariness translates into insecurity and how they respond to it. The research is conducted using an open design, reflexive framework, and an abductive approach. It offers a narrative presentation of the lived experiences of temporariness and a critical interpretation of the multiplicity of the translation of those experiences into insecurity, as well as the responses to it. The rich empirical narrative offers a glimpse into the variety of lived experiences of the temporary academic workers and the multitude of opportunities for social action. It advances an understanding of the relationship of different individual, collective, organisational, and professional aspects with the lived experience of temporariness and temporariness as insecurity and as precarious work. It is argued that temporary academic work can be experienced as job field insecurity – the concern of involuntary exit from the professional field that is fuelled by challenges to professional identity, membership, and organisational citizenship; epistemic uncertainty; social and financial uncertainty, lack of alternatives; and the permeating imperatives for individual responsibility, self-improvement, and forward-living. The work discusses different ways in which the subjectivities of insecurity are navigated. It is argued that temporary academic work can be experienced as precarious work in certain circumstances, but also that some elements of the profession can be invoked in order to challenge precarious subjectivities.
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- Butler, Nick, et al.
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Academics at play : Why the “publication game” is more than a metaphor
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is increasingly common for academic work to be described as a ‘publication game’. For some, the idea of academic game-playing serves as a convenient metaphor for explaining concrete phenomenon such as professional advancement or instrumental careerism in the context of national research assessments such as the recent Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the UK. However, we suggest that academic game-playing should not solely be understood in metaphorical terms. Rather, we propose that many of the attributes of play – as articulated by play theorists – can be usefully applied to understand and problematize academic research under the contemporary ‘regime of excellence’. Drawing on extensive interviews with critical management scholars, we argue that academia is characterized by a ‘lusory attitude’ towards research; this means that scholars relate to their work as players relate to a game. Ultimately, we seek to show how the separation between ‘mere’ game-playing and ‘real’ research is not possible to maintain in practice. In doing so, we also problematize the ‘separation thesis’ in play theory, which holds that play, by its very nature, is strictly separated from ‘reality’.
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- Butler, Nick, et al.
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Academics at play : Why the “publication game” is more than a metaphor
- 2020
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Ingår i: Management Learning. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5076 .- 1461-7307. ; 51:4, s. 414-430
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is increasingly common to describe academic research as a “publication game,” a metaphor that connotes instrumental strategies for publishing in highly rated journals. However, we suggest that the use of this metaphor is problematic. In particular, the metaphor allows scholars to make a convenient, but ultimately misleading, distinction between figurative game-playing on one hand (i.e. pursuing external career goals through instrumental publishing) and proper research on the other hand (i.e. producing intrinsically meaningful research). In other words, the “publication game” implies that while academic researchers may behave just like players, they are not really playing a game. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, we show that this metaphor prevents us, ironically, from fully grasping the lusory attitude, or play-mentality, that characterizes academic work among critical management researchers. Ultimately, we seek to stimulate reflection about how our choice of metaphor can have performative effects in the university and influence our behavior in unforeseen and potentially undesirable ways.
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- Butler, Nick, et al.
(författare)
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Beyond measure
- 2020
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Ingår i: Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization. - 2052-1499. ; 20:3, s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Numbers reveal, but they also hide; they tell us who we are, but also who we ought to become; they show us how happy and healthy we are, but also urge us to adjust ourselves to the norm. Numbers manage us and we, in turn, manage ourselves through numbers. At the same time, the rationale behind these metrics remains inaccessible to us, stored safely away in a locket, kept secret from all but the few who have access to these systems of enumeration and computation. In our special issue, we open up this locket and explore questions around measurement in relation to management, organization, and politics –namely, how do processes of quantification intervene in our lives, sideline other modes of judgement and decision, and lead us astray with a trail of numbers. The title oft he special issue, ‘Beyond measure’, signals an attempt to denaturalize measurement, to peel back the layers of commensuration to see what lies beneath.
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- Butler, Nick, et al.
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How to Become Less Excellent
- 2017
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Ingår i: The Corporatization of the Business School. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. : Routledge. - 9781138191204 ; , s. 74-91
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter examines forms of game-playing in the business school by focusing on the way that the regime of excellence – understood primarily in terms of journal rankings and research assessments – comes to modify academics' relationship to scholarship. It offers some suggestions on how academic game-plays in the business school. The chapter reviews the literature on the rise of excellence, focusing on the impact of journal rankings and research assessments on academic working lives. In recent years, 'excellence' has emerged as a key discourse within the contemporary university. Originating in the private sector and the rise of New Public Management in the 1980s and 1990s, 'excellence' involves orientating academic knowledge production around metrics such as journal rankings, impact factors and league tables. To this extent, it is aligned with neo-liberal 'audit culture' that seeks to measure and assess the products of academic labour as discrete units of value rather than as primarily scholarly contributions.
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