Bureaucratization of Worth: How Business Schools Demonstrate Scholarly Impact

Chao Ren, Gillian Vesty, Mingqiong Mike Zhang and Hui Situ (2025) Academy of Management Learning and Education, 24(1), pp. 50-76 Abstract. This study provides qualitative insights into academic research management in Chinese business schools. We conceptualize research performance measurement and value-based judgments as tests to explore the potential for compromise. Our argument is grounded in qualification and valuation studies and draws on Boltanski and Thévenot’s concept of orders of wort...