IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijmcph/v3y2008i1p19-29.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Economic calculation, market incentives and academic identity: breaking the research/teaching dualism?

Author

Listed:
  • Sue Clegg

Abstract

This article argues that as institutions, universities are being recast in policy discourse as serving particular external agendas shaped by economic calculation and market incentives. The result has been that a wedge has been driven between research and teaching, and that both are mis-described in utilitarian terms as serving the market and 'employability'. The article makes the case for more careful descriptions of the purposes of research and education based on the unity of academic identity and the value of intellectual enquiry. Such a model has implications for the organisation, for universities, and for their broader civic functions.

Suggested Citation

  • Sue Clegg, 2008. "Economic calculation, market incentives and academic identity: breaking the research/teaching dualism?," International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(1), pages 19-29.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmcph:v:3:y:2008:i:1:p:19-29
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=18525
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijmcph:v:3:y:2008:i:1:p:19-29. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=90 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.