Journal list fetishism and the perversion of scholarship: reactivity and the ABS list

By Hugh Willmott. 2011

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Statistics and Probability

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Sample Selection in Systematic Literature Reviews of Management Research (2021, background): “Although journal rankings can and probably should be discussed critically (e.g., Rowlinson et al., 2015; Tourish & Willmott, 2015; Willmott, 2011), these rankings show that AMA and IJMR are regarded highly in the international scholarly community.”
Sex-based harassment and organizational silencing: How women are led to reluctant acquiescence in academia (2018, background): “One line of scholarly inquiry that has been pursued with earnest is the questionable role of managerialism on the narrowing of parameters of the types of research that constitute as institutionally valuable (Butler and Spoelstra, 2016; Willmott, 2011).”
Evaluation practices and effects of indicator use : a literature review (2016, background): “ Willmott, H. (2011) ‘Journal list fetishism and the perversion of scholarship: reactivity and the ABS list’, Organisation, 18/4: 429-442.”
It’s a Bittersweet Symphony, this Life: Fragile Academic Selves and Insecure Identities at Work (2014, methodology): “This reflects the strategies adopted by a number of academics (and we include ourselves among them) who simply write critically about the intensification of work and managerial demands in university, while in doing so, effectively comply with them (Clarke et al., 2012; Grey, 2010; Willmott, 2011).”
Academic sell-out: how an obsession with metrics and rankings is damaging academia (2014, background): “Obsession with journal rankings and luxury journals There is an obsession with journal rankings, at least here in the UK, and Cluley (2014) and Willmott (2011) go so far as to call it ‘journal list fetishism’.”
Tracking the evolution of waste recycling research using overlay maps of science. (2011, background): “ment research are becoming an irrelevant game structured by the academic job market and business school rankings rather than by research excellence or concern about real-world issues (Minzberg, 2000; Willmott, 2011a, 2011b; Alvesson and Sandberg, 2011; Tourish, in press).41 Thirdly, since socially r”
Who cares for academics? We need to talk about emotional well-being including what we avoid and intellectualise through macro-discourses (2019, background): “Consider the REF and journal rankings such as the Association of Business Schools (ABS) list, that are known to damage funding and research cultures (Willmott, 2011) and which are often imposed in internal promotion and other employee assessment criteria.”