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TY - JOUR
T1 - Myopic rhetorics
T2 - reflecting epistemologically and ethically on the demand for relevance in organizational and management research
AU - Knights, David
PY - 2008/12/1
Y1 - 2008/12/1
N2 - I examine the relevance debate in organizational/management research and teaching asa disciplinary rhetoric that should be treated with a degree of caution if not skepticism. For enslavement to relevance is in danger of reducing our independence as academics—something that, from my experience of working with a consortium of practitioners, I knowthat management values. Here, however, I do not suggest resisting relationships withmanagement. On the contrary, I endorse them as a way of developing productive, ethicalresearch and learning; building sources of access for research; and enhancing teaching. Also, such relationships can supplement existing research-funding resources, although itis still necessary to retain some epistemological distance from management practicewhile engaging with it as an ethical project.
AB - I examine the relevance debate in organizational/management research and teaching asa disciplinary rhetoric that should be treated with a degree of caution if not skepticism. For enslavement to relevance is in danger of reducing our independence as academics—something that, from my experience of working with a consortium of practitioners, I knowthat management values. Here, however, I do not suggest resisting relationships withmanagement. On the contrary, I endorse them as a way of developing productive, ethicalresearch and learning; building sources of access for research; and enhancing teaching. Also, such relationships can supplement existing research-funding resources, although itis still necessary to retain some epistemological distance from management practicewhile engaging with it as an ethical project.
KW - BUSINESS education
KW - EXECUTIVES -- Training of
KW - CORE competencies
KW - UNIVERSITIES & colleges -- Curricula
KW - BUSINESS schools
KW - RELEVANCE
U2 - 10.5465/AMLE.2008.35882194
DO - 10.5465/AMLE.2008.35882194
M3 - Journal article
VL - 7
SP - 537
EP - 552
JO - Academy of Management Learning and Education
JF - Academy of Management Learning and Education
SN - 1537-260X
IS - 4
ER -