TY - JOUR
T1 - The alienation of scholarship in modern business schools
T2 - From marxist material relations to the Lacanian subject
AU - Alakavuklar, Ozan Nadir
AU - Dickson, Andrew G.
AU - Stablein, Ralph
PY - 2017/9/1
Y1 - 2017/9/1
N2 - In this essay, we theorize the fragmented nature of the alienation experienced by management scholars working in neoliberal universities. We argue that management scholars not only suffer from the detachment of labor from product (e.g., research and teaching) as material economic relations determine, but by adding a psychoanalytic perspective, we claim that they also must enjoy this process as a necessity of a neoliberal logic that reinforces anxiety. Hence, we argue that alienation should be approached as a potential to fulfill when considering troubling production relations in business schools. In terms of the implications addressing primarily our colleagues, we suggest hystericizing our alienation from our labor with simple acts of critique in management education and research. In other words, by hystericizing, we mean not only asking questions to produce more knowledge for the market, but also always staying in a questioning mode and being dissatisfied with the answers.
AB - In this essay, we theorize the fragmented nature of the alienation experienced by management scholars working in neoliberal universities. We argue that management scholars not only suffer from the detachment of labor from product (e.g., research and teaching) as material economic relations determine, but by adding a psychoanalytic perspective, we claim that they also must enjoy this process as a necessity of a neoliberal logic that reinforces anxiety. Hence, we argue that alienation should be approached as a potential to fulfill when considering troubling production relations in business schools. In terms of the implications addressing primarily our colleagues, we suggest hystericizing our alienation from our labor with simple acts of critique in management education and research. In other words, by hystericizing, we mean not only asking questions to produce more knowledge for the market, but also always staying in a questioning mode and being dissatisfied with the answers.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85031773448&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5465/amle.2015.0004
DO - 10.5465/amle.2015.0004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85031773448
SN - 1537-260X
VL - 16
SP - 454
EP - 468
JO - Academy of Management Learning and Education
JF - Academy of Management Learning and Education
IS - 3
ER -