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Beasts, burrowers and birds: the enactment of researcher identities in UK business schools
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In this article, we suggest that management research constitutes a field of practice that is made practically intelligible through embodied enactment. This relies on imagination, constructing modes of belonging within communities of management research practice. Undergraduate students constitute a significant audience towards whom these self-presentational performances are directed. Our analysis is based on findings from four UK business schools where students participated in a free drawing and focus group exercise and were asked to visualize a management researcher. Through identification of three dominant animal metaphors of management research practice, we explore the symbolic relations whereby a prevailing image of the management researcher, as untouchable, solitary, aggressive, competitive and careerist, is socially constructed. We argue that this competitive, self-interested impression of research is detrimental to ethical, critically reflexive, reciprocal and participatory modes of research, and to the development of management research as a broadly inclusive system of social learning.
Acceptance Date | Nov 1, 2012 |
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Publication Date | Mar 27, 2013 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Management Learning |
Print ISSN | 1350-5076 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Pages | 249 - 266 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507613478890 |
Keywords | Knowledge production, metaphor, research practice, symbolism, undergraduate students, visual analysis |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1350507613478890 |
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