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3 - Rethinking management education and its models: a critical examination of management and management education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2013

Howard Thomas ,
Peter Lorange  and
Jagdish Sheth
Howard Thomas
Affiliation:
Singapore Management University
Peter Lorange
Affiliation:
Lorange Institute of Business
Jagdish Sheth
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

The previous chapter outlined the continuing tensions between business schools and universities regarding legitimacy, identity and relevance of research and curricula. It pointed out the consequent need to reframe and re-examine business and management education through the lenses of new paradigms and models.

In this chapter, we take up the challenge of rethinking management education and its potential alternative approaches and models. We take a critical view of management education and ask, alongside other critics, whether we really know what management education is, or should be, about. Our position is that we need to rethink the meaning and concept of the ‘business school’ and our current philosophies of management education. Consequently, we pose the following questions:

  1. (1) What is management about? Is it an Art or a Science?

  2. (2) Do we have a theory of managing?

  3. (3) What is the proper content of management education?

  4. (4) What are the core management skills?

  5. (5) Is there a new, more radical management education model that can focus our thinking and hence provide insights into the logic of the range of alternative models that are currently being proposed?

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The Business School in the Twenty-First Century
Emergent Challenges and New Business Models
 , pp. 90 - 136
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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