Rediscovering Paideia and the Meaning of a Scholarly Career: Rejoinder to 'Identifying Research Topic Development in Business and Management Education Research Using Legitimation Code Theory'

摘要

I very much welcome the opportunity to offer a rejoinder to Arbaugh, Fornaciari, and Hwang (2016) as I would like to frame the challenge they set-in relation to scholarly contributions and their overall impact in advancing the business and management education field-as more than one of legitimation. Although I very much understand and admire their analysis and insights in an area where our impact as scholars is being questioned, our response matters even more. Our "action takeaway" should not be simply how we choose to focus our research based on the characteristics of contributions that are deemed "successful" merely in terms of citation. I feel strongly, as I have argued elsewhere (Aguinis, Shapiro, Antonacopoulou, & Cummings, 2014; Antonacopoulou, 2009, 2010a, 2010b) that this invitation (not challenge, as I choose to see it) to account for our impact is an opportunity to realize impact both individually and collectively. I use the word realize in its double meaning; this invitation is a golden moment to realize-recognize-our impact, and also to realize-deliver-our impact. What would this mean, then, if impact is what we construct our careers around as scholars and educators?