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Knights, David
(2008).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMLE.2008.35882194
Abstract
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.
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- Item ORO ID
- 38032
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1944-9585
- Keywords
- business education; executives; training of executives; core competencies; universities & colleges; curricula; business schools
- Academic Unit or School
- Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)
- Copyright Holders
- © 2008 Academy of Management Learning & Education
- Depositing User
- Jackie Fry