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‘The Leading Journal in the Field’:
Destabilizing Authority in the Social Sciences of Management
Peter Armstrong & Geoff Lightfoot (eds)
‘I am often told, “Don’t waste your time reading books, you’d be better off
reading the leading journals in your field.” Unfortunately, the authors of this
book have closely read some of those articles: examining arguments, with simple
principles and words, plus a touch of irony – and a shared belief in ideas and
debates. The suspicions that we all have in a part of our head appears in its ugly
nakedness: what is this social game that authors in leading management journals
play? What grants them their truth effects? This is a book that one should read
the day one enters the academic field; and then regularly thereafter so as not
to forget.’ Professor Jean-Luc Moriceau, Telecom Business School
(France)
The standards of scholarship prevailing in the social sciences of management
are indicative of an atrophy of the critical function. This results in a kind
of tribalized authoritarianism, a dispersed oligarchy of the gatekeepers in
which the congeniality of ideas and findings with their own have replaced
judgments based on the quality of argument and evidence. The authors in this
volume turn to the practice of practical criticism to destabilize authority in
the social sciences of management, and to assert that it must be possible for
criticism of scholarly outputs – particularly those of established
authority-figures – to be heard and debated.