Stop Devaluing My Degree! (Kettunen et al. 2025) | AMLE ABDC-A*

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🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit — the podcast where academic insights get their moment in the spotlight, and the stories behind the research come alive. 📚✨

Today’s episode dives deep into a world where degrees aren’t just earned — they’re defended.

🎓 Episode Title:
"Stop Devaluing My Degree! Stakeholder-Led Stigmatization to Save Business School Status"

🧠 Written by Kerttu Kettunen, Andrew Inkpen, Kimmo Alajoutsijärvi, and Ilan Alon, this timely and powerful piece was published on May 22, 2025 in the Academy of Management Learning & Education — a prestigious journal that holds an elite ABDC A★ rating. That’s right — this is the Ivy League of academic publishing. 🏛️📈

So, what’s this paper about?
It’s about power.
It’s about prestige.
It’s about the moment a top-tier business school tried to partner with a for-profit university — and its own alumni said no way. 🚫💼

💥 This isn’t a story about curriculum. It’s a story about control.
Through a compelling case study, the authors show us how alumni — once the proud products of their alma mater — turned into stigmatizers, armed with tweets, status updates, and reputation on the line.

They said, “Stop devaluing my degree.”
And the institution listened.

📲 In a world where stakeholders tweet before they email and reputations crash faster than stock prices, this paper is a wake-up call to every school board, dean, and accreditation body out there.

So we ask:
❓ When did your degree stop being a credential... and start being a battleground?

🙏 A big thank you to the authors — Kettunen, Inkpen, Alajoutsijärvi, and Alon — and to the Academy of Management for publishing this vital work in a journal as respected as it is relevant.

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Reference

Kettunen, K., Inkpen, A., Alajoutsijärvi, K., & Alon, I. (2025). Stop Devaluing My Degree! Stakeholder-Led Stigmatization to Save Business School Status. Academy of Management Learning & Education. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2024.0066

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