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Latour and Woolgar’s ‘cycle of scientific credibility’ as a basis for conceptualizing business school strategy

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  • Chris Ivory

    (Anglia Ruskin University)

  • Helen Shipton

    (Nottingham Trent University)

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Drawing on contemporary and historical discourse around UK business schools and insights from the sociology of scientific knowledge, we argue that business schools should be understood and judged, not as they typically have been, as engines of knowledge production, but as engines of credibility production. Credibility, we argue, is central to the attractiveness of business schools to students and other key stakeholders and therefore credibility, and the mechanisms through which credibility are maintained, should be at the center of strategic thinking within business schools. We argue that over-reliance on funding from corporate sources can have profound consequences for the ability of schools to continue to produce credibility. This article focuses primarily on the experiences of business schools in the UK.

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  • Chris Ivory & Helen Shipton, 2020. "Latour and Woolgar’s ‘cycle of scientific credibility’ as a basis for conceptualizing business school strategy," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 14(2), pages 379-391, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:rvmgts:v:14:y:2020:i:2:d:10.1007_s11846-019-00363-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s11846-019-00363-2
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    Keywords

    Third-party funding; Reputation; Credibility; Knowledge production; Business schools;
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    JEL classification:

    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
    • I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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