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

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posted on 2023-08-30, 16:17 authored by Chris Ivory, Helen Shipton
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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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

14

Page range

379-391

Publication title

Review of Managerial Science

ISSN

1863-6691

Publisher

Springer

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2019-06-06

Legacy creation date

2019-06-06

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

Faculty of Business & Law

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