Taylorizing business school research: On the ‘one best way’ performative effects of journal ranking lists
批判性地考察了期刊排名列表如何塑造学术研究活动，指出其‘一刀切’逻辑催生研究单一文化，以英国商学院协会期刊指南为例，说明排名列表主导研究焦点和方向，对学术发展产生不利影响。
The article critically examines how work is shaped by performance measures. Its specific focus is upon the use of journal lists, rather than the detail of their construction, in conditioning the research activity of academics. It is argued that an effect of the ‘one size fits all’ logic of journal lists is to endorse and cultivate a research monoculture in which particular criteria, favoured by a given list, assume the status of a universal benchmark of performance (‘research quality’). The article demonstrates, with reference to the Association of Business Schools (ABS) ‘Journal Guide’, how use of a journal list can come to dominate and define the focus and trajectory of a field of research, with detrimental consequences for the development of scholarship.