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The biographic benchmarking: A discursive tool to support change towards "boundaryless carriers" in the academic field
[Le benchmarking biographique : un outil discursif d’accompagnement vers les "carrières scientifiques nomades"]

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  • Stéphane Le Lay

    (IPDT - Institut de psychodynamique du travail)

  • Jean Frances

    (FoAP - Formation et apprentissages professionnels - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] - HESAM - HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université - ENSTA Bretagne - École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne - AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, ENSTA Bretagne_SHS - Département Sciences Humaines et Sociales ENSTA Bretagne - ENSTA Bretagne - École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne)

  • Camille Noûs

    (Laboratoire Cogitamus = Cogitamus Laboratory)

Abstract

With the political project of the "knowledge economy", training PhD students who want to become managers has become a goal for higher education and research institutions. In this context, many systems have been put in place, including Doctoriales®, which bring together "learner" researchers for several days around business games and conferences, in order to encourage them to consider their PhD as a sum of experiences to be valued on the labor markets more than as a period of research training through research. Based on a survey by participant observation, this article analyzes precisely one of the tools used by the lecturers during the Doctoriales®: biographical benchmarking. Thanks to this discursive tool in which doctoral figures of failure and success are embodied and compared, the speakers invite the trainees to think about the means of leading their trajectory through "nomadic careers" breaking with the scientific ethos.

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  • Stéphane Le Lay & Jean Frances & Camille Noûs, 2020. "The biographic benchmarking: A discursive tool to support change towards "boundaryless carriers" in the academic field [Le benchmarking biographique : un outil discursif d’accompagnement ," Post-Print hal-03028335, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03028335
    DOI: 10.3917/trav.044.0215
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