ABSTRACT

This paper is a conversation between a management academic and a practitioner from the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), the largest sporting and cultural organisation in Ireland. The GAA is an alternative organisation in that it (a) has a particular understanding of ‘management’, (b) emphasises place and community, (c) prohibits a market for players; (d) is volunteer-led; (e) operates on democratic principles; and (f) is concerned with more than sport. In the conversation, the practitioner asserts that, for him, critical performativity is arrogant and self-serving, with academics using practitioners as tropes in faux performative research. Instead, he argues that academic practice should become normative with academics becoming critics, adjudicating on what’s good and the bad in their objects of study.

摘要

本文是管理学者与盖尔体育协会（GAA）的​​从业者之间的对话，盖尔体育协会是爱尔兰最大的体育和文化组织。GAA是一个替代组织，因为它（a）对“管理”有特定的了解，（b）强调场所和社区，（c）禁止参与者进入市场；（d）由义工领导；（e）按照民主原则运作；（f）不仅关注运动。在谈话中，从业者断言，对于他来说，关键的表现是自大的和自私的，而学者们则将从业者当作虚假的表演研究的比喻。相反，他认为学术实践应该成为规范 随着学者成为批评家，对研究对象的优缺点进行裁决。