A More Relevant Approach to Relevance in Management Studies: An Essay on Performativity

Eric Abrahamson, Héloïse Berkowitz () and Hervé Dumez
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Héloïse Berkowitz: CRG I3 - Centre de recherche en gestion i3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Hervé Dumez: CRG I3 - Centre de recherche en gestion i3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: In this essay, we criticize how the performativity thesis, as described and exemplified in Do Economists Make Markets, has focused primarily on the field of economics generally and business school–based financial economics consequently. By doing so the performativity literature has ignored whether, when, and how financial economics outperforms, or might be outperformed by, other business school sciences, such as management. In other words, just as a firm's economic performance depends on its capacity to outperform its competitors, we suggest that the performativity of a science, like financial economics, also results from its capacity to outperform other sciences, like management.

Keywords: economics; relevance; performativity; management; business schools; pertinence; management; économie; business schools; performativité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-04-01
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Published in Academy of Management Review, 2016, 41 (2), pp.367-381 ⟨10.5465/amr.2015.0205⟩

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DOI: 10.5465/amr.2015.0205

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