Management’s collusion in poverty? Archetypes, conceits, and performative neophytism
批判主流管理学研究与贫困保持距离的表演性新手主义，指出其将穷人视为有缺陷、将贫困概念化为距离的原型，以及自认为能解决贫困的自负，实际上对减贫作用甚微。
Mainstream management studies’ arm’s length engagement with poverty exemplifies its performative neophytism as field. It is enabled by its problematic archetypes of the poor and their poverty: (a) that the poor are deficient; and (b) conceptualizing poverty as distance. They make way for mainstream management studies’ conceits: (a) that it is separate from poverty and dispossession it causes, and (b) that it possesses the resources to ‘solve’ poverty. These conceits safeguard the field and legitimizes its scholars’ inventions and interventions, many of which evidence suggests do little for poverty alleviation. It is time for management studies to cease its performative neophytism.