The Emperor’s New Clothes: How Our Fear of Seeming Stupid Became a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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Academy of Management Learning & EducationVol. 19, No. 2 Special Section: Responses to Dennis Tourish’s “The Triumph of Nonsense in Management Studies”The Emperor’s New Clothes: How Our Fear of Seeming Stupid Became a Self-Fulfilling ProphecyLaura EmpsonLaura EmpsonCass Business School, University of London, United KingdomPublished Online:24 Jul 2020https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2020.0121AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsDownload CitationsAdd to favoritesTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail View articleREFERENCESAlvesson, M., & Gabriel, Y. 2013. Beyond formulaic research: In praise of greater diversity in organizational research and publications. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 12(2): 245–263.Link , Google ScholarAndersen, H. C. 1837. The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Hans Christian Andersen Centre, https://andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheEmperorsNewClothes_e.html, accessed 17 February 2020. Google ScholarBaer, M., & Shaw, J. 2017. Falling in love again with what we do: Academic craftmanship in the management sciences. Academy of Management Journal, 60(4): 1213–1217.Abstract , Google ScholarBothello, J., & Roulet, T. 2018. The imposter syndrome, or the mis-representation of self in academic life. Journal of Management Studies, 56(4): 854–861. Google ScholarClarke, C., Knights, D., & Jarvis, C. 2012. A labour of love? Academics in business schools. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 28: 5–15. Google ScholarEmpson, L. 2013. My affair with the ‘other’: Identity journeys across the research–practice divide. Journal of Management Inquiry, 22(2): 229–248. Google ScholarEmpson, L. 2017. My liminal life: Perpetual journeys across the research-practice divide. In J. BartunekJ. McKenzie (Eds.), Academic practitioner research partnerships: Developments, complexities and opportunities. Routledge. Google ScholarHarley, B. 2019. Confronting the crisis of confidence in management studies: Why senior scholars need to stop setting a bad example. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 18(2): 286–297.Link , Google ScholarKnights, D., & Clarke, C. 2014. ‘It’s a bittersweet symphony, this life’: Fragile academic selves and insecure identities at work. Organization Studies, 35(3): 335–357. Google ScholarPrince, A. 1998. Hans Christian Andersen: The fan dancer. London: Allison & Busby Ltd. Google ScholarTienari, J. 2012. Academia as financial markets? Metaphoric reflections and possible responses. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 28(3): 250–256. Google ScholarTourish, D. 2019. Management studies in crisis: Fraud, deception and meaningless research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Google ScholarTourish, D. 2020. The triumph of nonsense in management studies. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 19: 99–109. Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byFrom the Editors—Extending the Big Table: A Call to ActionWilliam M. Foster23 December 2020 | Academy of Management Learning & Education, Vol. 19, No. 4 Vol. 19, No. 2 Permissions Metrics in the past 12 months History Published online 24 July 2020 Published in print 1 June 2020 Information© Academy of Management Learning & EducationDownload PDF