The rotten core of In Search of Excellence : Reflections on the tainted legacy of the excellence project
批判性反思《追求卓越》一书，指出卓越项目对管理教育影响深远，但因批评者和教育者未深入审视被标榜为“卓越”组织的实际管理实践，导致其作为知识和理想化实践持续存在。文章利用报纸档案和新闻调查，为商业卓越的批判性教学提供工具。
This article offers critical reflections on In Search of Excellence . Located within a discussion of ‘the historical turn’ and offered as a ‘counterhistory’, the article argues that the excellence project has had a profound and enduring impact on management education and on the manner in which we understand and elaborate the problems and processes of management. The article suggests however that the excellence project persists as a form of knowledge and prevails as a set of idealized practice because critics and educators have failed to engage meaningfully with the managerial practices of those organizations vaunted as ‘excellent’. Building upon newspaper archives and longer forms of journalism to provide a novel, critical analysis of the practices of those organizations vaunted as ‘exemplars of excellence’, the article offers tools for a critical pedagogy of business excellence.