The Business School and the Bottom Line
Cambridge University Press, 8/16/2007
EAN 9780521865111, ISBN10: 0521865115
Hardcover, 252 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
In recent decades, business schools have become important components of higher education throughout the world. Yet, surprisingly, they have received little serious attention. This book provides a sober and evidence-based assessment, charting the history and character of business schools in the light of current debates about the role of universities and the evolution of advanced economies. Previous commentators have viewed business schools as falling between two stools: lacking in academic rigour yet simultaneously derided by the corporate world as broadly irrelevant. However, over-concern with criticism risks ignoring the benefits of reform. What business schools need is reconfiguration based on new relationships with academia and business. Such change would deliver institutions that are truly fit for purpose, allowing them to become key players in the 21st century's emergent knowledge societies. This timely critique should be read by academics and policy-makers concerned with the present state and future development of business education.
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Prologue
1. Introduction
2. The development and diffusion of the business school
3. Business schools in the era of hyper-competition
'more 'business' and less 'school'
4. Business school education
5. Business school research
6. Experiments and innovations
7. Imaginary MBAs
8. Business school futures
mission impossible?
Epilogue.