The Business School in the Twenty-First Century: Emergent Challenges and New Business Models
Cambridge University Press, 7/18/2013
EAN 9781107013803, ISBN10: 1107013801
Hardcover, 292 pages, 23.2 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
Questions about the status, identity and legitimacy of business schools in the modern university system continue to stimulate debate amongst deans, educational policy makers and commentators. In this book, three world experts share their critical insights on management education and new business school models in the USA, Europe and Asia, on designing the business school of the future, and how to make it work. They look at how the business school is changing and focus in particular on emergent global challenges and innovations in curricula, professional roles, pedagogy, uses of technology and organisational delineations. Set within the context of a wider discussion about management as a profession, the authors provide a systematic, historical perspective, analysing major trends in business school models, and reviewing a wealth of current literature, to provide an informed and unique perspective that is firmly grounded in practical and experimental analysis.
Preface
tipping or tripping? The business school and its dilemmas
1. The business school
history, evolution and the search for legitimacy
2. Business school identity and legitimacy
its relationship to the modern university and society
3. Rethinking management education and its models
a critical examination of management and management education
4. A framework for re-evaluating paradigms of management education
5. Evaluating new and innovative models of management education
6. Is the business school a professional firm? Lessons learned
7. Enhancing dynamic capabilities in the business school
improving leadership capabilities in curricula and management
8. Afterword
business school futures
Index.
Advance praise: 'Lorange, Sheth and Thomas provide a comprehensive, data-filled overview of the business school landscape including its history and current conditions. With an appropriately broad focus on schools throughout the world, and by considering what skills business schools should impart to their students and how they might accomplish this, this book is one of the very best overviews of the business school ecosystem.' Jeffrey Pfeffer, Thomas D. Dee, II Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University