Debating 'Homo Academicus' in Management and Organization

Ontological Assumptions and Practical Implications
2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-58194-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Reihe: Palgrave Debates in Business and Management

In the fields of management and organization, there is an ongoing debate about different ontological assumptions about people in and around organizations, and the dangers of self-fulling prophecies, i.e., the phenomena in which unsubstantiated, unethical, or dysfunctional assumptions about people can lead to adverse practical consequences. This open access book advances this debate, but in a self-reflexive direction, asking: Who do we, as scholars in the fields of management and organization, think we are? What ontological assumptions about ourselves do we live by? Do we think we are something “special”, a 'Homo Academicus', distinctively separated from the life-world of managers and employees but linked with other academics such as, say, philosophers and sociologists? If so, what are the consequences and implications of such assumptions?
Part of the popular Palgrave Debates in Business and Management series, each of the chapters disclose, problematize, and criticize different ontological assumptions about 'Homo Academicus' that underpins research in the fields of management and organization. It will be of great interest to management and organization scholars and students, as well as those with a broader interest in methodology and critical studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ericsson, Daniel

Cinque, Silvia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Debating : A maieutic quest for self-reflexivity.- PART ONE: .- 2 When management and organization came to the village of Jante.- 3 Aren’t we all human? - On the illusion of the extraordinary academic.- PART TWO: .- 4 Existential explorations of others and oneself as a researcher.- 5 – Notes on writing management.- 6 Living as an : How I learned to stop worrying and love academia.- 7 as becoming nomad: Reflections through a journey of pregnancy and motherhood.- 8 : Identity tensions facing women academics in management and organization.- PART THREE: .- 9 and gender: The cracking assumptions of rationality.- 10 Beyond Conventional Leadership: On and ontological assumptions in academia.- 11 From to .- 12 as guild, employment and attitude – the academy in transition.

Über Autor(innen)

Silvia Cinque is Lecturer in Organisation and Management at the University of Liverpool Management School and Fellow at SDA Bocconi School of Management. She conducts research across the areas of organisation and management theory, business and society, and social theory. Her main interests involve identity, meaningful work and work as a calling, power and resistance, gender, and the creative industries.

Daniel Ericsson is a Professor in Business Administration at the School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Sweden, specializing in Organisation and Management. He is also a Visiting Professor in Cultural Entrepreneurship at Lund University, Sweden. His research is mainly carried out in the intersection of management, entrepreneurship and organization, with a special interest in creativity, and methods.