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- Essén, Anna, et al.
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The mutual constitution of sensuous and discursive understanding in scientific practice : An autoethnographic lens on academic writing
- 2013
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Ingår i: Management Learning. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5076 .- 1461-7307. ; 44:4, s. 395-423
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- The research process and production of scientific knowledge has traditionally been understood to be based on abstract analysis and intellectual capacity rather than physical and emotional resources, promoting an understanding of academic practice as a detached, non-emotional and objective activity. Lately, several researchers have bemoaned this lack of recognition of the bodiliness of our work. In this study, we attempt to address this gap by exploring and conceptualizing some of the ways in which the embodied dimensions of academic research practices are intertwined with the articulation of ideas in the writing of scientific texts. In order to pursue our aim, we draw on experiences explicated through an autoethnographic approach, including the generation of personal narratives and in-depth conversations with 18 researchers from different universities in Europe and the US. The article contributes to the sociology of science and academic literacy literature, by conceptualizing the interconnectedness between sensuous and discursive understandings in this context. With the advancement of this theoretical approach, we illuminate how scientific practice is bound up with emotional, embodied, material, social, political and institutional forces. We also challenge the dichotomy between ‘knowledge work’ or theoretical tasks on the one hand, and ‘body work’ or physical labor on the other.
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- Fougere, Martin, et al.
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Disclaimers, dichotomies and disappearances in international business textbooks: A postcolonial deconstruction
- 2012
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Ingår i: Management Learning. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5076 .- 1461-7307. ; 43:1, s. 5-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we draw on a postcolonial sensibility to deconstruct how culture is discussed in mainstream international business textbooks. Through this deconstruction we show: (1) how the initial disclaimers that call for cultural sensitivity can be seen as pointing to the opposite of what they claim, which leads us to question the cultural sensitivity notion from ethical and political standpoints; (2) how the cultural dichotomies that form the core of the discussions always tend to silence the suppressed 'other' features on each side, which leads us to point to the much more ambivalent nature of culture and the hybrid spaces that can be created through cultural translation; (3) how (colonial) history is conspicuously absent from the arguments about 'cultural' underdevelopment and thus haunts the text. We conclude the article by suggesting the development of alternative types of international business textbook material on culture.
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- Kostera, Monika, et al.
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Drinking from the waters of Lethe : A tale of organizational oblivion
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Ingår i: Management Learning. - : Sage. - 1350-5076 .- 1461-7307. ; 41:2, s. 187-204
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a reflection on organizational oblivion, viewed as an archetypical antonym of learning. The consequences of this kind of forgetting for organizational identity construction are described as a narrative project. We refer to the image of Lethe, an archetype of forgetting, to depict how forgetting directly affects the process of identity narrative construction. In this perspective, drinking from the waters of Lethe implies not just the loss of knowledge or memories of how things are done, but the loss of identity so that the individuals do not know who they are anymore. In this context, forgetting disrupts organizational narrative which ceases to be a coherent story and results in organizational identity loss.
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- Wedlin, Linda, 1975-
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Going Global : Rankings as rhetorical devices to construct an international field of management education
- 2011
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Ingår i: Management Learning. - : SAGE Publications. - 1350-5076 .- 1461-7307. ; 42:2, s. 199-218
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Analysing the introduction of international rankings in the field of management education, this paper aims to understand how and why rankings have proliferated and institutionalized in the field, and with what effects. Building on an emerging stream in institutional theory, I propose that the rankings function as rhetorical devices to construct legitimacy within the field, which actors use to attempt to shape and reform the field as it develops. Rhetorical devices shape meaning, as they are used to justify practices and procedures and shape the means of comparison and assessment. Particularly, I show how the rankings are used by European business schools to attempt to alter perceptions of the field and their own positions within it. As such, rankings take part in the construction of the international field of management education. The result of these processes is also, however, a preservation of status and the principles whereby status is formed in the field. I discuss the implications of these findings for understanding rankings and for institutional theories of fields.
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- Werr, Andreas, et al.
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The co-consumption of management ideas and practices
- 2011
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Ingår i: Management Learning. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1461-7307 .- 1350-5076. ; 42:2, s. 139-147
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How does the impact of the growing management knowledge industry on management and organizational practice take shape? In answering this question, the article aims to address some key shortcomings in the productionist view that dominates the present literature on management ideas and practices by developing the concept of co-consumption. The three articles that comprise this special issue not only give voice to consumers of management knowledge as a neglected actor in the field, but also provide important insights into the complexities and dynamics of co-consumption by (1) moving the discussion beyond conceptualizations of consumption as merely a matter of implementing a management idea, (2) pointing to the limited influence of knowledge entrepreneurs in defining management and organizational practice, and (3) presenting a more dynamic and differentiated conceptualization of the management knowledge consumer. On the basis of these articles we develop some fruitful areas for further research.
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