Debating ‘Homo Academicus’ in Management and Organization

Silvia Cinque is Lecturer in Organisation and Management at the University of Liverpool Management School and Fellow at SDA Bocconi School of Management. She conducts research across the areas of organisation and management theory, business and society, and social theory. Her main interests involve identity, meaningful work and work as a calling, power and resistance, gender, and the creative industries.Daniel Ericsson is a Professor in Business Administration at the School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Sweden, specializing in Organisation and Management. He is also a Visiting Professor in Cultural Entrepreneurship at Lund University, Sweden. His research is mainly carried out in the intersection of management, entrepreneurship and organization, with a special interest in creativity, and methods.

• 1 Debating Homo academicus: A maieutic quest for self-reflexivity.- PART ONE: Homo moralis.- 2 When management and organization came to the village of Jante.- 3 Aren’t we all human? - On the illusion of the extraordinary academic.- PART TWO: Homo reflectivus.- 4 Existential explorations of others and oneself as a researcher.- 5 Homo scribens – Notes on writing management.- 6 Living as an academic-cum-something-else: How I learned to stop worrying and love academia.- 7 Homo academicus as becoming nomad: Reflections through a journey of pregnancy and motherhood.- 8 “Dragged in the opposite direction”: Identity tensions facing women academics in management and organization.- PART THREE: Homo mutatus.- 9 Homo academicus and gender: The cracking assumptions of rationality.- 10 Beyond Conventional Leadership: On Homo academicus (dux) and ontological assumptions in academia.- 11 From Homo academicus activistarum to Homo academicus imaginatus.- 12 Homo academicus as guild, employment and attitude – the academy in transition.