The neoliberalization of Indian business schools: how accreditation-linked institutional pressures shape academic subjectivities

R. Kumar, Ajnesh Prasad
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PurposeThis study revisits the discourse on the neoliberalization of business schools and explores how accreditation-linked institutional pressures catalyze cultural change that adversely impact academic labor and academic subjectivities in the Global South.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on in-depth semi-structured interviews with academics from elite business schools in India.FindingsThis study shows how academics encounter institutional pressures in Indian business schools. Three major themes emerged from the data: (1) the conception of the ideal academic that existed before accreditation, (2) how the conception of the ideal academic was fundamentally transformed during and after accreditation, and (3) the challenges academics experienced in achieving the performance targets introduced by accreditation-linked institutional pressures.Originality/valueThis study offers two contributions to the extant literature on business schools located in the Global South: (1) it illustrates how organizational changes within business schools in India are structured by accreditation-linked institutional pressures coming from the Global North, and (2) it adds to the growing body of work on neoliberal governmentality by highlighting the implications of accreditation-liked institutional pressures on academic subjectivities.
印度商学院的新自由主义化:与认证相关的制度压力如何塑造学术主体性
本研究回顾了关于商学院新自由主义化的论述,并探讨了与认证相关的制度压力如何催化文化变革,从而对南半球的学术劳动和学术主体性产生不利影响。设计/方法/方法本研究基于对印度精英商学院学者的深度半结构化访谈。这项研究显示了印度商学院的学者是如何面对制度压力的。数据中出现了三个主要主题:(1)在认证之前存在的理想学者概念,(2)在认证期间和之后理想学者的概念是如何从根本上转变的,以及(3)学者在实现与认证相关的制度压力引入的绩效目标方面所经历的挑战。原创性/价值本研究为现有的关于南半球商学院的文献提供了两个贡献:(1)它说明了印度商学院内部的组织变化是如何由来自北半球的与认证相关的制度压力所构成的;(2)它通过强调与认证相关的制度压力对学术主体性的影响,为新自由主义治理的日益增长的工作增添了新的内容。
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