Book contents
- Management Studies in Crisis
- Management Studies in Crisis
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the Crisis in Management Studies
- Chapter 1 Flawed from the Get-Go: the Early Misadventures of Management Research
- Chapter 2 How Audit Damages Research and Academic Freedom
- Chapter 3 ‘When the Levee Breaks’: Academic Life on the Brink
- Chapter 4 The Corruption of Academic Integrity
- Chapter 5 Paradise Lost but Not Regained: Retractions and Management Studies
- Chapter 6 The Triumph of Nonsense in Management Studies
- Chapter 7 Flawed Theorising, Dodgy Statistics and (In)Authentic Leadership Theory
- Chapter 8 The Promises, Problems and Paradoxes of Evidence-Based Management
- Chapter 9 Reclaiming Meaningful Research in Management Studies
- Chapter 10 Putting Zest and Purpose Back into Academic Life
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 3 - ‘When the Levee Breaks’: Academic Life on the Brink
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2019
- Management Studies in Crisis
- Management Studies in Crisis
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the Crisis in Management Studies
- Chapter 1 Flawed from the Get-Go: the Early Misadventures of Management Research
- Chapter 2 How Audit Damages Research and Academic Freedom
- Chapter 3 ‘When the Levee Breaks’: Academic Life on the Brink
- Chapter 4 The Corruption of Academic Integrity
- Chapter 5 Paradise Lost but Not Regained: Retractions and Management Studies
- Chapter 6 The Triumph of Nonsense in Management Studies
- Chapter 7 Flawed Theorising, Dodgy Statistics and (In)Authentic Leadership Theory
- Chapter 8 The Promises, Problems and Paradoxes of Evidence-Based Management
- Chapter 9 Reclaiming Meaningful Research in Management Studies
- Chapter 10 Putting Zest and Purpose Back into Academic Life
- Notes
- Index
Summary
It is, of course, impossible to separate the pressures on staff within business schools from the state of the universities in which they are based. I therefore start this chapter by paying tribute to the memory of an academic colleague in a different discipline, and who I never met. His name was Stefan Grimm and he died in 2014. The story of what happened to him is extreme, though perhaps less so than we would like to imagine. I think it serves as an illustration of university life at its worst and should alert us to the need for a change of direction.
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- Management Studies in CrisisFraud, Deception and Meaningless Research, pp. 60 - 79Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019