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Manifestation of academic rackets in management research through early career sessions at academic conferences

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  • P Matthijs Bal

    (University of Lincoln [UK])

  • Yvonne van Rossenberg

    (Radboud University [Nijmegen])

  • Mehmet A Orhan

    (Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School, EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School)

Abstract

This article investigated elite maintenance in the field of management and how early career researchers are taught to behave to become part of the elite. We develop insights into how the elite reproduces itself through socializing subsequent generations of scholars into the norms and hegemonic practices of the elite. Through analysis of sessions for early career researchers at a major academic management conference held online in 2021, we investigated how the elite functions as a racket, instructing the next generations of scholars how to enhance their chances of entering this racket. Relying on role modeling and specific behavioral advice, the elite reproduces itself by laying out the basic rules for the next generations on how to behave as the elite. This includes overemphasizing how early career researchers can join the academic elite while neglecting the discussion of how we could improve the academic system itself. We discuss the implications of racket-like manifestation of academic disciplines, including the control of a rather small group of elite scholars over an entire field of scientific investigation through which alternative voices are suppressed.

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  • P Matthijs Bal & Yvonne van Rossenberg & Mehmet A Orhan, 2024. "Manifestation of academic rackets in management research through early career sessions at academic conferences," Post-Print hal-04976277, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04976277
    DOI: 10.1177/13505076241234153
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