Ronald Hartz
@ronaldhartz.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany | organization studies | critical management studies | alternative forms of organization | higher education | he/him
"Of course the case for their value and importance needs to be made. But it needs to be made in appropriate terms, and these terms are not chiefly, and certainly not exclusively, economic. They are intellectual, educational, scientific, and cultural." (Stefan Collini: What Are Universities For?)
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"Of course the case for their value and importance needs to be made. But it needs to be made in appropriate terms, and these terms are not chiefly, and certainly not exclusively, economic. They are intellectual, educational, scientific, and cultural." (Stefan Collini: What Are Universities For?)
Books about the state of #HigherEd, no.30: “Socratic questioning is unsettling, and people in power often prefer docile followers to independent citizens able to think for themselves. … So we should not be surprised that the humanities are under assault, now as ever.” (Martha C. Nussbaum)
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Books about the state of #HigherEd, no.30: “Socratic questioning is unsettling, and people in power often prefer docile followers to independent citizens able to think for themselves. … So we should not be surprised that the humanities are under assault, now as ever.” (Martha C. Nussbaum)
Limitations of the Enterprise University:
- Leaders detached from that which they lead
- Works around and against academic cultures
- Strengthening of the 'steering core' vs. dynamic academic
cultures
- Internal institutional community thinned out
- Social ethics endangered
- Crisis of purpose
- Leaders detached from that which they lead
- Works around and against academic cultures
- Strengthening of the 'steering core' vs. dynamic academic
cultures
- Internal institutional community thinned out
- Social ethics endangered
- Crisis of purpose
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Limitations of the Enterprise University:
- Leaders detached from that which they lead
- Works around and against academic cultures
- Strengthening of the 'steering core' vs. dynamic academic
cultures
- Internal institutional community thinned out
- Social ethics endangered
- Crisis of purpose
- Leaders detached from that which they lead
- Works around and against academic cultures
- Strengthening of the 'steering core' vs. dynamic academic
cultures
- Internal institutional community thinned out
- Social ethics endangered
- Crisis of purpose
It seems that the Ordinance is based on a somewhat interesting interpretation of the Education Reform Act 1998, Section 202.
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It seems that the Ordinance is based on a somewhat interesting interpretation of the Education Reform Act 1998, Section 202.
Großer Garten, Dresden.
November 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Großer Garten, Dresden.
"During periods of crisis ... outside pressures for purging the universities of their supposedly disloyal elements increased ... Professors and administrators responded by revising the ... definition of academic freedom to exclude ... the types of behavior the rest of the community did not like."
October 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
"During periods of crisis ... outside pressures for purging the universities of their supposedly disloyal elements increased ... Professors and administrators responded by revising the ... definition of academic freedom to exclude ... the types of behavior the rest of the community did not like."
"‘Can’t you see that we admitted that student from his deeply impoverished background? If he can do it, anyone can’. And thus the university absolves itself of any proper social responsibility for a world of massive structural inequality, preferring instead .. a logic of aggressive competitiveness".
October 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"‘Can’t you see that we admitted that student from his deeply impoverished background? If he can do it, anyone can’. And thus the university absolves itself of any proper social responsibility for a world of massive structural inequality, preferring instead .. a logic of aggressive competitiveness".
Glad you made it out.
September 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Glad you made it out.
"Before a strategy for social critique can be formulated,
we must make assumptions about the way in
which subjectivity is impacted by language; ..why the revolution has not taken place; and why we keep going to meetings that we know are pointless." (Hoedemaekers,2010)
mayflybooks.org/lacan-and-or...
we must make assumptions about the way in
which subjectivity is impacted by language; ..why the revolution has not taken place; and why we keep going to meetings that we know are pointless." (Hoedemaekers,2010)
mayflybooks.org/lacan-and-or...
September 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"Before a strategy for social critique can be formulated,
we must make assumptions about the way in
which subjectivity is impacted by language; ..why the revolution has not taken place; and why we keep going to meetings that we know are pointless." (Hoedemaekers,2010)
mayflybooks.org/lacan-and-or...
we must make assumptions about the way in
which subjectivity is impacted by language; ..why the revolution has not taken place; and why we keep going to meetings that we know are pointless." (Hoedemaekers,2010)
mayflybooks.org/lacan-and-or...
Traces of the Leicester Model of a Critical Management School - Workshop announcement of the Collective for Alternative Organisation Studies (CAOS) in 2005:
September 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Traces of the Leicester Model of a Critical Management School - Workshop announcement of the Collective for Alternative Organisation Studies (CAOS) in 2005:
‘In the end ... we decided to employ academic capitalism in part because alternatives - academic entrepreneurism or entrepreneurial activity - seemed to be euphemisms for academic capitalism which failed to capture fully the enroachment of the profit motive into the academy.’ (p.9)
September 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
‘In the end ... we decided to employ academic capitalism in part because alternatives - academic entrepreneurism or entrepreneurial activity - seemed to be euphemisms for academic capitalism which failed to capture fully the enroachment of the profit motive into the academy.’ (p.9)
Books about the state of #HigherEd, no. 29: ‘the front and centring of the finances aspect of universities has changed their very nature, with a concomitant prioritisation of marketing the university as a product to attract customers and to build the university as a brand for consumption’ (p.15)
September 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Books about the state of #HigherEd, no. 29: ‘the front and centring of the finances aspect of universities has changed their very nature, with a concomitant prioritisation of marketing the university as a product to attract customers and to build the university as a brand for consumption’ (p.15)
Oh, I was there on holiday in 2023. Such a marvellous place!
September 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Oh, I was there on holiday in 2023. Such a marvellous place!
“In a world of widely communicated nonsense, any statement of fact is of political and moral significance. ... In such a world as ours, to practice social science is, first of all, to practice the politics of truth.” (C. Wright Mills, 1959)
September 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“In a world of widely communicated nonsense, any statement of fact is of political and moral significance. ... In such a world as ours, to practice social science is, first of all, to practice the politics of truth.” (C. Wright Mills, 1959)
Hobbyist researcher in action
September 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Hobbyist researcher in action
'But can we really see things if we have an urge to constantly produce?'
New book by Ilaria Boncori, Monika Kostera and Emmanouela Mandalaki: Poetry and Organizing: Perspectives on the Uses and Value of Poetry in Organization Studies.
#OrgStudies
www.elgaronline.com/monobook-oa/...
New book by Ilaria Boncori, Monika Kostera and Emmanouela Mandalaki: Poetry and Organizing: Perspectives on the Uses and Value of Poetry in Organization Studies.
#OrgStudies
www.elgaronline.com/monobook-oa/...
September 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
'But can we really see things if we have an urge to constantly produce?'
New book by Ilaria Boncori, Monika Kostera and Emmanouela Mandalaki: Poetry and Organizing: Perspectives on the Uses and Value of Poetry in Organization Studies.
#OrgStudies
www.elgaronline.com/monobook-oa/...
New book by Ilaria Boncori, Monika Kostera and Emmanouela Mandalaki: Poetry and Organizing: Perspectives on the Uses and Value of Poetry in Organization Studies.
#OrgStudies
www.elgaronline.com/monobook-oa/...
'If your organization is "changing the world", on a "spiritual journey", or on a "mission for humankind", you know that rules do not count for you even if the outside world doesn't understand it. All those terms signal trouble ahead. The way to corporate hell is paved with words.' (Palazzo/Hoffrage)
September 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
'If your organization is "changing the world", on a "spiritual journey", or on a "mission for humankind", you know that rules do not count for you even if the outside world doesn't understand it. All those terms signal trouble ahead. The way to corporate hell is paved with words.' (Palazzo/Hoffrage)
'By believing that they must imitate business in order to work with business, universities are in danger of forgoing some of the very elements that enable them to make a distinctive contribution: teaching for personal/cultural development.., long-term research programs, critical scholarship’.(p.244)
August 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
'By believing that they must imitate business in order to work with business, universities are in danger of forgoing some of the very elements that enable them to make a distinctive contribution: teaching for personal/cultural development.., long-term research programs, critical scholarship’.(p.244)
Interesting working paper by Carina Altreiter, Theresa Hager and Stephan Pühringer:
Political Economy of Knowledge Production in Capitalist Academia: Challenges and Opportunities for Socio-Ecological Transformation
#HigherEd
www.jku.at/fileadmin/gr...
Political Economy of Knowledge Production in Capitalist Academia: Challenges and Opportunities for Socio-Ecological Transformation
#HigherEd
www.jku.at/fileadmin/gr...
August 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Interesting working paper by Carina Altreiter, Theresa Hager and Stephan Pühringer:
Political Economy of Knowledge Production in Capitalist Academia: Challenges and Opportunities for Socio-Ecological Transformation
#HigherEd
www.jku.at/fileadmin/gr...
Political Economy of Knowledge Production in Capitalist Academia: Challenges and Opportunities for Socio-Ecological Transformation
#HigherEd
www.jku.at/fileadmin/gr...
'From the perspective of leadership, the future will have an episodic quality, each moment erasing itself in a long march to success. ... Change procures its own values ... And yet ... the conviction is sustained that the next decision might make all the difference in the world.' (Randy Martin)
August 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
'From the perspective of leadership, the future will have an episodic quality, each moment erasing itself in a long march to success. ... Change procures its own values ... And yet ... the conviction is sustained that the next decision might make all the difference in the world.' (Randy Martin)
August 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Critical books about the state of #HigherEd, no. 28: 'Today’s problems do not reflect a failure to introduce market thinking but the effects of its long-term presence.’ (Christopher Newfield (2016): The Great Mistake, p.4)
July 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Critical books about the state of #HigherEd, no. 28: 'Today’s problems do not reflect a failure to introduce market thinking but the effects of its long-term presence.’ (Christopher Newfield (2016): The Great Mistake, p.4)
'[T]he university [is] a permanent battleground, and a source of vitality, contestation, "creative desctruction", money power, and visions of better worlds. The university is a corporate and a utopian environment at the same time'. (Christopher Newfield, 2003, p.4)
July 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
'[T]he university [is] a permanent battleground, and a source of vitality, contestation, "creative desctruction", money power, and visions of better worlds. The university is a corporate and a utopian environment at the same time'. (Christopher Newfield, 2003, p.4)