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Theorizing the subjectivizing powers of market-based technologies: Looking beyond coercion and seduction
Örebro University, Örebro University School of Business.
Örebro University, Örebro University School of Business.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3676-5155
Örebro University, Örebro University School of Business.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3466-5273
Mälardalen University, School of Business Society and Engineering, Västerås, Sweden.
2024 (English)In: Critical Perspectives on Accounting, ISSN 1045-2354, E-ISSN 1095-9955, Vol. 99, article id 102662Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Existing theorizations on how the proliferation of market-based technologies within universities come to foster so-called academic performer subjectivities have mainly drawn attention to their coercive and seductive powers. However, while these theorizations help explain why researchers either unwillingly adapt to, or identify with and cherish, their neoliberal ideals, they are less useful to explain recent empirical results showing that many researchers willingly comply yet are very critical of the very same ideals. Drawing upon an interview study of Swedish researchers, we address this theoretical gap in the literature by analytically disentangling three important qualities of the technologies per se, in terms of them producing performance numbers characterized by Specificness, Ongoingness, and Emptiness (SOE). These three qualities do not only have the dual power to interchangeably provoke bitter and sweet feelings, but also to foster the adoption of an academic performer subjectivity. In fact, it is precisely by provoking bittersweet feelings that these qualities break the sharp edges of pure coercion and seduction, thereby fostering a type of low-affective, yet highly persuasive form of reasoning about pros and cons of market-based technologies, which make their neoliberal ideals seem acceptable and reasonable at the end of the day.

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Elsevier, 2024. Vol. 99, article id 102662
Keywords [en]
Coercion/seduction, Market-based technologies, Researcher subjectivities
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Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-110218DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2023.102662ISI: 001249279200003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85169831883OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-110218DiVA, id: diva2:1819494
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Swedish Research Council, 2014–740The Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, P20-0036Örebro UniversityAvailable from: 2023-12-14 Created: 2023-12-14 Last updated: 2024-07-25Bibliographically approved

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