Kociatkiewicz, J. orcid.org/0000-0001-6449-1185, Kostera, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-5303-5544 and Zueva, A. orcid.org/0000-0003-3346-7873 (2022) The ghost of capitalism: a guide to seeing, naming and exorcising the spectre haunting the business school. Management Learning, 53 (2). pp. 310-330. ISSN 1350-5076
Abstract
The aim of this article is both a pronouncement of doom and an offer of hope for the Western business school. Both come from the recognition that business schools are haunted and that the haunting spectre is none other than the capitalist ideology. We ground our thinking in the established rich ‘ghostly’ academic literature where the metaphor of the ghost is used to reveal the powerful agency of the unspoken-of and the unseen. Using three fictional ghostly tales as interpretive lenses, we make three arguments. First, we argue that capitalism is a ghost in the walls of the business school. Second, we suggest that capitalism’s ghostly nature prevents the business school from offering a curriculum that serves more than the growth of financial capital. Third, we propose that naming of capitalism is integral to the exorcism of its ghost and the creation of curriculum that engages with the social and environmental challenges of our times.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages. |
Keywords: | Business school; capitalism; ghost; haunting; literary analysis; naming; reflexivity; spectre |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2024 15:02 |
Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 15:02 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/13505076211005810 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:220411 |