Organizing Studies: Publications, Politics and Polemic

This paper explores the relationship between European and North American publication in the organization studies field by means of a political analysis of the constitution of centres and margins. This analysis is rooted in the historical development of business schools and their search for academic status which, in turn, is refracted through the globalization of business schools and the emergence of ranking systems for journals and business schools. The consequences of these developments are critically assessed in terms of their tendency to be exclusionary and conservative to the detriment of intellectual innovation within organization studies.