Academia After Virtue? An Inquiry into the Moral Character(s) of Academics
| Autor: | Hanne Nørreklit, Lino Cinquini, Daniela Pianezzi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Virtue ethics Virtue Performance media_common.quotation_subject NPM Moral agency 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Ethos Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Identity 0502 economics and business Sociology Business and International Management Moral character media_common University 05 social sciences Environmental ethics 06 humanities and the arts Morality General Business Management and Accounting New public management 060301 applied ethics Business ethics Law 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Pianezzi, D, Nørreklit, H & Cinquini, L 2020, ' Academia after virtue: An Inquiry into the Moral Character(s) of Academics ', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 167, no. 3, pp. 571-588 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04185-w |
| ISSN: | 1573-0697 0167-4544 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10551-019-04185-w |
| Popis: | An extensive literature has focused on the impact of new public management (NPM) oriented structural changes on academics’ practice and identity. These critical studies have been resolute in concluding that NPM inevitably leads to a degeneration of academics’ ethos and values. Drawing from the moral philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre, we argue that these previous analyses have overlooked the moral agency of the academics and their role in ‘moralizing’ and consequently shaping the ethical nature of their practices. The paper provides a new theoretical understanding of NPM-oriented reforms in light of the virtue ethics approach, thereby directing the attention to the moral character and moral agency of academics. Our analysis of interviews collected in the business department of a Danish university provides an example of how individuals have divergent ethical understandings of these structural changes and enact/resist pre-defined social roles in different ways. While in some cases the NPM agenda of the institutions has triggered internal moral conflict and a crisis of moral character, in other cases the new logic resonates with academics’ values and evaluative standards. Partially departing from the theoretical ground of MacIntyre (1981), we conclude that academics can play a crucial role in shaping the morality of NPM-oriented institutions and in transforming these settings into suitable contexts for the cultivation of virtues. |
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