Changing the rules of the game in academic publishing: three scenarios in the field of management research
Abstract
The field of academic publishing is under multiple pressures to transform as it suffers from crises of confidence partly due to the mass marketisation, deterioration of relevance and decline of collaborative scientific ethos that it has experienced. The paper offers a provocation based on a multilevel analysis of the present academic (business) model of knowledge production and dissemination, and its consequences. It then presents three alternative futuristic scenarios. The first one is based on a fully commercialized approach to publishing. The second scenario promotes an open science approach and the third one explores a complete overhaul of our current approach to management research. The paper has implications for governance of the field of publishing in management research into the future and aims to alert the actors in the sector to the vices of the mass marketisation of academic publishing.Citation
Brabet, J., Ozbilgin, M. and Yamak, S. (2021) Changing the rules of the game in academic publishing: three scenarios in the field of management research, International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, 15(4), pp.477-495.Publisher
InderscienceJournal
International Journal of Business Governance and EthicsAdditional Links
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Inderscience in International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics on 08/10/2021, available online: https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=118628 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.ISSN
1477-9048ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1504/IJBGE.2021.118628
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