TY - JOUR

T1 - The poverty of journal publishing

AU - Beverungen, Armin

AU - Böhm, Steffen

AU - Land, Christopher

PY - 2012/11/1

Y1 - 2012/11/1

N2 - The article opens with a critical analysis of the dominant business model of for-profit, academic publishing, arguing that the extraordinarily high profits of the big publishers are dependent upon a double appropriation that exploits both academic labour and universities’ financial resources. Against this model, we outline four possible responses: the further development of open access repositories, a fair trade model of publishing regulation, a renaissance of the university presses, and, finally, a move away from private, for-profit publishing companies toward autonomous journal publishing by editorial boards and academic associations.

AB - The article opens with a critical analysis of the dominant business model of for-profit, academic publishing, arguing that the extraordinarily high profits of the big publishers are dependent upon a double appropriation that exploits both academic labour and universities’ financial resources. Against this model, we outline four possible responses: the further development of open access repositories, a fair trade model of publishing regulation, a renaissance of the university presses, and, finally, a move away from private, for-profit publishing companies toward autonomous journal publishing by editorial boards and academic associations.

KW - Management studies

KW - publishing

KW - academic journals

KW - political economy

KW - academic publishing

KW - appropriation

KW - cultural industry

KW - exploitation

KW - free labour

KW - journals

KW - political economy

KW - research

KW - university

UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84870020428&origin=inward&txGid=0

U2 - 10.1177/1350508412448858

DO - 10.1177/1350508412448858

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 19

SP - 929

EP - 938

JO - Organization

JF - Organization

SN - 1350-5084

IS - 6

ER -