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The Nature of Knowledge in Business Schools

Academy of Management Learning and Education, 2008
We contribute to the debate on the future of business schools by investigating the nature of knowledge being produced and taught within them. We identify how a preference for abstract causal explanation over practical knowledge, and for reason and truth over what works, has led to a privileging of detached contemplation over involved action.
Robin Holt, Robert Chia
exaly   +4 more sources

Organizational Mindfulness in Business Schools

Academy of Management Learning and Education, 2011
Business schools, like many organizations, exist in increasingly turbulent environments, making them vulnerable to unexpected events.
Donde Ashmos Plowman
exaly   +2 more sources

Greening of business schools: a systemic view

open access: yesInternational Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2010
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a model for the analysis of business schools as creators, disseminators, and adopters of knowledge on environmental management.  Design/methodology/approach – A review of the importance ...
Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour
exaly   +2 more sources

Business School Rankings and Business School Deans

2003
We examine the relation between dean turnover and changes in rankings in a comprehensive sample of business schools with ranked MBA programs from 1990-2002. We find little evidence that dean departures are related to changes in a school's overall rank in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. However, dean turnover does appear to be elevated when a
C. Edward Fee   +2 more
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Business school output: A conceptualisation of business school graduates

The International Journal of Management Education, 2013
Abstract Extant literature has illustrated that business schools are currently pre-occupied with promoting and teaching optimization, efficiency and effectiveness, maximization and profitability. Too little attention is afforded to promoting the skills of analysis and critical thinking or the mastery of theories, abstract conception or a wider ...
Anders Örtenblad   +3 more
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The business of business schools

The Learning Organization, 1995
Charts the development of the training industry from the 1960s training boards to the new training and enterprise councils. Decries the rapid proliferation of business schools, suggesting that the provision of management training has become a production line.
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