Performance in neo-liberal doctorates: the making of academics

IF 2.3 4区管理学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE

Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management Pub Date : 2020-06-29 DOI:10.1108/qram-11-2019-0127

Cynthia Courtois, M. Plante, Pierre-Luc Lajoie

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Abstract

This study aims to better understand how academics-in-the-making construe doctoral performance and the impacts of this construal on their positioning in relation to doctoral performance expectations.,This study is based on 25 semi-structured interviews with PhD students from Canadian, Dutch, Scottish and Australian business schools.,Based on Decoteau’s (2016) concept of reflexive habitus, this study highlights how doctoral students’ construal is influenced by their previous experiences and by expectations from other adjacent fields in which they simultaneously gravitate. This leads them to adopt a position oscillating between resistance and compliance in relation to their understanding of doctoral performance expectations promoted in the academic field.,The concept of reflexivity, as understood by Decoteau (2016), is found to be pivotal when an individual integrates into a new field.,This study encourages business schools to review expectations regarding doctoral performance. These expectations should be clear, but they should also leave room for PhD students to preserve their academic aspirations.,It is beneficial to empirically clarify the influence of performance expectations in academia on the reflexivity of PhD students, as the majority of studies exploring this topic mainly leverage auto-ethnographic data.

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新自由主义博士的表现:学术成就

本研究旨在更好地了解未来学者如何解释博士绩效，以及这种解释对他们在博士绩效期望方面的定位的影响。这项研究基于对来自加拿大、荷兰、苏格兰和澳大利亚商学院的25名博士生的半结构化访谈。基于Decoteau(2016)的反身性习惯(reflexive habitus)概念，本研究强调了博士生的解释是如何受到他们之前的经验和他们同时被吸引的其他邻近领域的期望的影响。这导致他们在对学术领域所提倡的博士表现期望的理解上，采取一种在抵制和顺从之间摇摆的立场。正如Decoteau(2016)所理解的，当一个人融入一个新的领域时，反身性的概念是至关重要的。这项研究鼓励商学院重新审视对博士生表现的期望。这些期望应该是明确的，但也应该给博士生留下空间，让他们保持自己的学术抱负。实证地阐明学术界的绩效预期对博士生反身性的影响是有益的，因为大多数探索这一主题的研究主要利用自民族志数据。

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4.50

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31.60%

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期刊介绍： Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management is an international journal that promotes qualitative research at the interface of accounting and management. The journal encourages the assessment of practices in the accounting field through a variety of theoretical lenses, and seeks to further our knowledge of the accounting-management nexus in its broadest (e.g., organisational, social and political) contexts. QRAM welcomes submissions of original research papers, conceptual pieces, substantive review articles, and shorter papers such as comments or research notes. The following is intended to indicate potential topics, but is by no means prescriptive. These topics can be overlapping rather than discrete subject areas, and researchers should not feel restricted by the scope of the topics listed below. • Management accounting and control • Accountability, transition and organisational change • Performance management and accounting metrics • Accounting for strategic management • The use and behavioural effects of accounting information in organisational decision-making • Public and third sector accounting and management • Accounting and management controls for sustainability and the environment • Historical perspectives on the accounting-management interface • Methods and methodologies for research at the interface of accounting and management • Accounting and management in developing countries and emerging economies • Technology effects on accounting-management dynamics