Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

3-2008

Abstract

This article discusses our analysis of over 2,000 articles publishedwithin 20 top business and management journals. The article empirically demonstrates how little attention is being paid by the work published within these journals to contemporary political issues across the globe. We also demonstrate the extent to which the same is true of ‘critical’ journals such as Organization. To this end we argue that mass scholarly ranking mechanisms, such as the British Research Assessment Exercise (RAE),create a general state of myopia on the part of business and management scholars towards a variety of political issues, even making a virtue out of ignorance in this regard. We suggest that this is not simply a problem for critical management studies and proceed to raise the question of what the responsibility of business and management academia actually is.

Keywords

academic responsibility, business and management scholarship, critical management studies (CMS), journal rankings

Discipline

Business | Higher Education | Politics and Social Change

Research Areas

Strategy and Organisation

Publication

Organization

Volume

15

Issue

2

First Page

271

Last Page

282

ISSN

1350-5084

Identifier

10.1177/1350508407087871

Publisher

SAGE Publications (UK and US)

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508407087871

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