A labour of love? Academics in business schools

Clarke, C. , Knights, D. and Jarvis, C. (2012) A labour of love? Academics in business schools. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 28 (1). pp. 5-15. ISSN 0956-5221

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Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2011.12.003

Abstract

This paper contributes to a growing literature on new public management in relation to academia in general but more specifically UK business schools. Following interviews with a range of staff in universities, we explore the impact that auditing and monitoring interventions have made on academics and their identities. In some senses, academic identities would appear to have been colonised by managerialist practices of audit, league tables, research assessments, and other measures of accountability for performance. Although explicit resistance to new public management practices in UK business schools is extremely limited, we argue that considerable disquiet and dissatisfaction prevails, so that notions of a 'labour of love' is being stretched to its limits as we are increasingly subjected to loveless demands.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	academics, business schools, academic identities, new public management, labour of love, loveless demands, audit, performative culture
Faculty/Department:	Faculty of Business and Law > Department of Business Management ~Pre-2012 Faculty Structure > Faculty of Business and Law > Department of Business and Management
ID Code:	14604
Deposited By:	Dr C. Jarvis
Deposited On:	20 May 2011 15:50
Last Modified:	02 Jan 2013 10:09