Instrumentalism and the publish-or-perish regime

Becker, Albrecht; Lukka, Kari

doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2022.102436

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“…public sector accounting scholars) may experience a contrast between the publication game and other duties, such as doing societally relevant work, performing high-quality teaching and serving specific audiences (Argento and van Helden, 2023). The publish-or-perish regime is driving towards an understanding of research as a mean of producing publications as items of countable performance (Becker and Lukka, 2023), with quantity prevailing on quality, thus undermining the quality of research and sound scholarship.…”

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Performance management and measurement impacts on universities: (re)viewing the past, present and future

Guthrie,

Manes-Rossi,

Orelli

et al. 2024

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PurposeThis paper undertakes a structured literature review to analyse the literature on performance management and measurement (PMM) in universities over the last four decades. Over that time, PMM has emerged as an influential force in universities that impacts their operations and redefines their identity.Design/methodology/approachA structured literature review approach was used to analyse a sample of articles on PMM research from a broad range of disciplines over four decades. This was undertaken to understand the impacts of PMM practices on universities, highlight changes over time and point to avenues for future research.FindingsThe analysis highlights the fact that research on PMM in universities has grown significantly over the 40 years studied. We provide an overview of published articles over four decades regarding content, themes, theories, methods and impacts. We provide an empirical basis for discussing past, present and future university PMM research. The future research avenues offer multiple provocations for scholars and policymakers, for instance, PMM implementation strategies and relationships with various government programs and external evaluation and the role of different actors, particularly academics, in shaping PMM systems.Originality/valueUnlike a traditional literature review, the structured literature review method can develop insights into how the field has changed over time and highlight possible future research. The sample for this literature review differs from previous reviews in covering a broad range of disciplines, including accounting.

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Performance management and measurement impacts on universities: (re)viewing the past, present and future

Guthrie,

Manes-Rossi,

Orelli

et al. 2024

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“…Thus, after several failures and my apparent inability to convince qualitatively oriented reviewers of the value of evidence-based reviews and inductively generated review findings, I have concluded that – for the time being – I could either not try publishing review articles covering qualitative accounting research or just submit to the conventions of the field [8]. I concede that this position may come across as overly instrumental and as blindly submitting to the rules of the current publish-or-perish culture (Becker and Lukka, 2022; van Dalen and Henkens, 2012; Weigel and Müller, 2020). However, since I had a non-tenured co-author on board in the above example (Ndemewah and Hiebl, 2022), to submit to the conventions of the field, as I did not want my beliefs to get in the way of my co-author’s career prospects.…”

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Literature reviews of qualitative accounting research: challenges and opportunities

Hiebl

2023

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Purpose This paper aims to identify specific challenges and opportunities when crafting literature reviews of qualitative accounting research. In addition, it offers potential remedies to frequent challenges when conducting such reviews. Design/methodology/approach This piece is based on recent methodological advice on conducting literature reviews and my own experience when conducting and publishing reviews that primarily cover qualitative accounting research. Findings The author chart three typical advantages and three typical use cases of literature reviews of qualitative accounting research, as well as the typical process steps and outputs of such reviews. Along with these process steps, The author identifies three overarching specific challenges when conducting such reviews and discusses potential remedies. Overall, this paper suggests that literature reviews of qualitative accounting research feature idiosyncratic challenges but offer specific opportunities at the same time. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is among the first to offer advice on the specific challenges and opportunities when conducting literature reviews of qualitative accounting research.

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“…First, at the time of writing the original paper, we deliberately chose to produce interparadigmatic research which is more in line with interpretivism. We felt that broader coherence was needed if we were to survive the perils of academic publishing and peer review (Moizer, 2009; Grey, 2010; Becker and Lukka, 2023), where significant paradigmatic discrepancies and impressions of disorganization do not tend to be appreciated by reviewers (Daft, 1995). Our interpretive emphasis was meant to send a clear signal regarding the paper’s main paradigmatic inclination, in the hope of increasing the likelihood of having the paper evaluated by reviewers involved in the same paradigm and accustomed to its evaluation criteria.…”

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Breaking incommensurability boundaries? On the production and publication of interparadigmatic research

Gendron,

Paugam,

Stolowy

2023

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Purpose This essay takes issue with the incommensurability thesis, which assumes that meaningful research work across different paradigms cannot occur. Could it be that the thesis understates the case for meaningful relationships to develop across paradigms? Is it possible that researchers can authentically and rewardingly collaborate across paradigms and create joint studies published in established journals? Design/methodology/approach Based on the observation that interparadigmatic research exists, the authors investigate two questions. How is interparadigmatic research expressed in the accounting research literature? How can we comprehend the process that underlies the development and publication of interparadigmatic research, focusing on cohabitation involving the positivist and interpretive paradigms of research? Findings To deal with the first question, the authors focus on two interparadigmatic articles: Greenwood et al. (2002) and Paugam et al. (2021). The authors find each article showcases a dominant paradigm – whereas the role of the other paradigm is represented as secondary; that is, complementing and enriching the dominant paradigm. To address the second question, the authors rely especially on their involvement as coauthors of three interparadigmatic studies, published between 2019 and 2022 in FT50 journals. The authors’ analysis brings to the fore a range of facilitators that fit their experiences, such as the development of cross-paradigmatic agreement within the authorship to cope with the complexity surrounding the object of study, the crafting of methodological compromises (e.g. regarding the number of documents to analyze) and the strategizing that the authorship enacted in dealing with journal gatekeepers. Originality/value From the authors’ experiences, they develop a model, which provides a tentative template to make sense of the process by which interparadigmatic research takes place. The model highlights the role of what the authors call “epistemic mediation” in producing interparadigmatic studies.

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Instrumentalism and the publish-or-perish regime

Cited by 29 publications

References 84 publications

Performance management and measurement impacts on universities: (re)viewing the past, present and future

Performance management and measurement impacts on universities: (re)viewing the past, present and future

Literature reviews of qualitative accounting research: challenges and opportunities

Breaking incommensurability boundaries? On the production and publication of interparadigmatic research

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