Taylorizing business school research: on the 'one best way' performative effects of journal ranking lists

Mingers, John and Willmott, Hugh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1321-7041 2013. Taylorizing business school research: on the 'one best way' performative effects of journal ranking lists. Human Relations 66 (8) , pp. 1051-1073. 10.1177/0018726712467048

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Abstract

The article critically examines how work is shaped by performance measures. Its specific focus is upon the use of journal lists, rather than the detail of their construction, in conditioning the research activity of academics. It is argued that an effect of the ‘one size fits all’ logic of journal lists is to endorse and cultivate a research monoculture in which particular criteria, favoured by a given list, assume the status of a universal benchmark of performance (‘research quality’). The article demonstrates, with reference to the Association of Business Schools (ABS) ‘Journal Guide’, how use of a journal list can come to dominate and define the focus and trajectory of a field of research, with detrimental consequences for the development of scholarship.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	journal lists; knowledge development; performance measurement; performativity; research evaluation; Taylorization; work culture
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	0018-7267
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 11:07
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/47033

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