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PALGRAVE DEBATES IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT Debating Business School Legitimacy Attacking, Rocking, and Defending the Status Quo Edited by Anders Örtenblad Riina Koris Palgrave Debates in Business and Management Series Editor Anders Örtenblad, Department of Working Life and Innovation, School of Business and Law, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway This series will take a refreshing and creative approach to business management research, consisting of a number of edited collections that showcase a current academic debate. Each title will examine one specific topic and shall include a number of chapters from authors around the world, presenting their differing points of view on the question in hand. The intention of this series is to take stock of controversial and compli- cated topics of debate within business and management, and to clearly present the variety of positions within it. · Anders Örtenblad Riina Koris Editors Debating Business School Legitimacy Attacking, Rocking, and Defending the Status Quo Editors Anders Örtenblad Riina Koris Department of Working Life Department of Marketing and Innovation, School of Business and Communication and Law Estonian Business School University of Agder Tallinn, Estonia Grimstad, Norway ISSN 2524-5082 ISSN 2524-5090 (electronic) Palgrave Debates in Business and Management ISBN 978-3-031-12724-3 ISBN 978-3-031-12725-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12725-0 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Praise for Debating Business School Legitimacy “This important and sobering collection of essays on the modern busi- ness school will provoke debate and may inspire needed change. If you believe, as I do, that today’s professional schools have an obligation to help address society’s most pressing challenges through the pursuit of actionable research and practical education, you will find much value in this book.” —Amy C. Edmondson, Professor, Harvard Business School, USA “An intriguing read, this book offers different perspectives on the raging debate, with only one solitary defence of the business school as is, despite the criticisms. Provocative in parts but nonetheless evoking questions for business school leaders to reflect upon in deciding what to change to regain legitimacy where deemed lost; or what to retain to defend the status quo where deemed apt. Brilliant!” —Enase Okonedo, Professor, Vice-Chancellor, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria v vi PraiseforDebatingBusinessSchoolLegitimacy “Business schools have become a key part of the landscape of contem- porary higher education. However, their role is proving increasingly controversial. This book demonstrates why this is so and what needs to change. This includes a broader definition of purpose beyond a focus on helping individuals and corporations to maximize only their own self- interest. Business schools need to demonstrate that they can become part of the solution to the excesses of a Darwinian form of capitalism that is actually destructive of long-term value broadly defined. They need to demonstrate that they have the potential to be a source of education innovation responsive to the needs of business and society. Only then will they have a legitimate claim to a continued existence. This book takes us to the heart of the problems business schools face which are, alas, very much of their own making.” —Ken Starkey, Professor of Management and Organisational Learning, Nottingham University Business School, UK Contents Part I Background and Introduction 1 Introducing the Debate on the Legitimacy of Business Schools 3 Riina Koris and Anders Örtenblad 2 (De)Legitimacy of Managerialism Within Business Schools 47 Katariina Juusola Part II Attacking Status Quo 3 Business Schools in Their Ideological Prison: Why Sustainability Challenge Is Our Next Legitimacy Crisis 67 Kimmo Alajoutsijärvi, Katariina Juusola, and Kerttu Kettunen vii viii Contents 4 The Reflexive Impotence and Neoliberal Neurosis of the Responsible Business School 87 Nikodemus Solitander 5 Business School Burnout: Endangering Legitimacy on Pathological Pathways 105 Volker Rundshagen Part III Rocking the Boat of Status Quo 6 The Business School in Ruins: Navigating the Multi-stakeholder Landscape of Contemporary Management Scholarship 125 Brian Howieson and Ian Robson 7 Delegitimizing Women Management Scholars’ Underrepresentation in the Research Impact Agenda 147 Emily Yarrow and Julie Davies 8 The Myth of the Global Market for Business Education 167 Lars Engwall and Linda Wedlin 9 On How Intercultural Management Education Can Increase the Societal Legitimacy of Business Schools 181 Madeleine Bausch 10 On the Dilemmatic Legitimacy of Business Schools: The Barbell Syndrome and the Dominance of Business Degrees 199 Gabriel Hawawini 11 How Business Schools Can Graduate Business Citizens 217 Yusuf Sidani 12 The Market’s Filthy Lesson: Disruption for Business and Management Education in Australian Public Universities 235 Owen Hogan, Michael B. Charles, and Michael A. Kortt Contents ix 13 How Business Schools Address Grand Societal Challenges Through Research: Personal Reflections and a Call to Arms 253 Graeme Currie Part IV Defending Status Quo 14 Compared to What? A Realist Defense of Business School 273 Jason Brennan Afterword: After the Business School 289 Index 301
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