Title: Economic calculation, market incentives and academic identity: breaking the research/teaching dualism?

Authors: Sue Clegg

Addresses: Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, Leeds LS6 3QS, UK

Abstract: This article argues that as institutions, universities are being recast in policy discourse as serving particular external agendas shaped by economic calculation and market incentives. The result has been that a wedge has been driven between research and teaching, and that both are mis-described in utilitarian terms as serving the market and |employability|. The article makes the case for more careful descriptions of the purposes of research and education based on the unity of academic identity and the value of intellectual enquiry. Such a model has implications for the organisation, for universities, and for their broader civic functions.

Keywords: commodification; higher education; knowledge; marketisation; university research; economic calculation; market incentives; university teaching; academic identity; intellectual enquiry.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMCP.2008.018525

International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2008 Vol.3 No.1, pp.19 - 29

Published online: 26 May 2008 *

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