FGV/EBAPE online journal critiques academic ?productivism?

The first issue of the year of EBAPE.BR ? the online journal published by FGV´s Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV/EBAPE) ? is now online, with 10 articles about diverse themes, including a debate over academia´s emphasis on production, rather than substance. In the article ?Academic Productivism and its impacts on graduate programs: a threat to solidarity between pairs?,? authors Roberto Patrus, Douglas Cabral Dantas and Helena Belintani Shigati discuss the impacts of ?academic productivism? ? academia´s prioritization of quantity, rather than quality, of academic output (e.g. publications) ? in graduate and post-grad programs, and evaluate the extent to which this phenomenon might threaten the same academic solidarity that has made it possible.In ?Managing the immeasurable: a critique of academic organizations,? Victor Meyer Júnior and Maria Cecilia Barbosa Lopes reflect on the role of the university administrator, critiquing the use of management models imported from the business world, which fail to comprehend the complexities and unique characteristics of academic organizations.In ?Conceptions of administration and administrator in times of flexible capitalist: a critical approach,? authors Ana Cristina Batista-dos-Santos and José Arimatés de Oliveira publish the results of a study aimed at achieving, as the title states, a critical understanding of conceptions of administration and administrator in times of flexible capitalism.For more about this issue, visit the FGV/EBAPE website.








