近来,管理学术受到越来越多的批评,主要集中在两个方面:一是缺乏相关性;二是基于学术竞争而发表论文所产生的功能障碍。为了辩护管理学术的精神,我们提出两个论点:第一,批评管理学术有缺陷,是因为它的不相关性。这种批评本身就是不相关的,没有认识到学术的本质。管理学者们应该为我们的学术感到无比骄傲,而不是失去自信。正是这种学术促使现代商学院丢弃了1950年代那种高度“相关”但学术上濒临崩溃的“贸易学院”模式。第二,我们认为我们的学术竞争酷似奥运比赛,能够吸引整个人类。显然,获得奥运奖牌的能力(比如赛跑,滑冰,射击运动员)与现实世界没有多大联系。但重要的是,那种专注、训练和奉献代表了人类追求卓越的精神。我们在这里大力鼓吹与支持的学术精神也正是如此。 Recently, management scholarship has been criticized more and more, mainly in two aspects: one is the lack of relevance; the other is the dysfunction caused by published papers based on academic competition. In order to defend the academic spirit of management, we put forward two arguments. First, criticizing management as academic is flawed because of its irrelevance. This criticism itself is irrelevant, did not recognize the nature of the academic. Management scholars should feel extremely proud of our academics, not lose confidence. It is this kind of scholasticism that has forced modern business schools to discard the highly “relevant” but academically collapsing “trade faculty” model of the 1950s. Second, we think our academic competition resembles the Olympics, attracting the entire human race. Obviously, the ability to get an Olympic medal (like racing, skating, shooting a player) has little to do with the real world. But importantly, that concentration, discipline and dedication represent the very spirit of humankind’s pursuit of excellence. The same is true of the academic spirit that we strongly advocate and support here.