Are we killing scholarship as we know it? [ENTREX]
Recent trends indicate that scholars' ethics has shifted, which can challenge the very existence of the scholarly enterprise
Per Bylund
Apr 15, 2026
As a multi-journal editor in entrepreneurship and management, I'm quite troubled by recent trends in scholarship. Combined, they undermine the status of research and will ultimately bring an end to scholarship. And it is entirely unnecessary and avoidable.
What follows is by no means an exhaustive list, but I find these three trends extra troublesome because they all indicate a general change in the ethics of the scholarly enterprise. That is, what used to be the prevailing ethics is changing. These trends, which will have disastrous consequences unless they are properly addressed, suggest a paradigm shift that is not due to a crisis in our theoretical understanding of the subject matter, as is the case with a Kuhnian paradigm, but a changing conception of what the scientific enterprise is about.
PER L BYLUND | Associate Professor
Johnny D. Pope Chair
School of Entrepreneurship
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