More than nothing? Accounting,business, and management studies,and the research audit |
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| Authors: | Stefano Harney Stephen Dunne |
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| Institution: | 1. Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, 50 Stamford Road, Singapore 178899, Singapore;2. Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy, University of Leicester School of Management, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK;1. Copenhagen Business School, CBS Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (cbsCSR), Porcelænshaven 18A, DK-2000, Frederiksberg, Denmark;2. Chair of Organization & Management, University of Zurich, Universitaetstrasse 84, 8006, Zurich, Switzerland;3. Stockholm School of Economics, Mistra Centre for Sustainable Markets (MISUM), P.O. Box 6501, SE-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden;1. School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK;2. Department of Accounting, Taxation and Legal Services, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549, United States;1. University of Minho, School of Economics and Management, Braga, Portugal;2. University Portucalense, Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies – REMIT, Portugal;3. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia;4. The University of Glasgow, United Kingdom;1. Eastern Michigan University, 425 Owen Hall, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, United States;2. York University, 4700 Keele St., North York, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada;3. Eastern Michigan University, United States |
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| Abstract: | This paper argues that business school scholarship can be seen as the example par excellence of what we are calling extreme neo-liberalism. By extreme neo-liberalism we mean the coexistence in the same sphere of extreme externalization of costs and extreme regulation of the sources of value. We argue that this condition is most obvious in the research audits conducted in Britain, and spreading globally, audits that record both the extreme externalization in business scholarship of all the sources of the wealth expropriated by business, and at the same time, regulate the very labour that produces this extreme self-regulation. Although this self-regulated labour regards itself as complete, and although it regards its acts of externalization as acts of self-making, we consider the relation between pedagogy and scholarship in order to show how this pervasive form of self-regarding simply does not hold. We conclude by noting that if business scholarship persists in defining itself against all that makes wealth possible, and thus making itself, logically at least, worthless, it also opens the possibility of starting an investigation of wealth, worth and value, from another point of view, one not dependant of completing business, but competing with it. |
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