Exploring identity positionings in scholarly texts on management
Profilo Orcid
Categoria dell'articolo: Research Article
Pubblicato online: 23 ago 2022
Pagine: 1 - 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijcm-2021-0007
Parole chiave
© 2021 Iga Lehman, published by Sciendo
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Background and research aims
Since scholarly texts on management have been criticised as being no longer effective in communicating today's changing sociocultural, disciplinary, and practical contexts, my purpose in this paper is to conceptualise the identity options management authors can assume to communicate disciplinary knowledge and beliefs.
Theoretical perspective
The theoretical perspectives involved in this analysis include selected aspects of
Key findings
Based on this conceptual framework, specific advice is provided as to how academics can create a reader-inclusive or authoritative writer persona in their texts. In doing so, I support the recent efforts in Critical Management Studies (CMS) to ‘write differently’ in order to address the aesthetic, moral, and political concerns of writing in the field.