The Corporatization of the Business School : Minerva Meets the Market
Huzzard, Tony LU ; Benner, Mats LU and Kärreman, Dan LU (2017)- Abstract
- With business schools becoming increasingly market-driven, questionable trends have emerged, such as the conflation of academic and corporate management, and the notion that academics and students are market players, who respond rationally to market signals.
Using individual studies from leading scholars in a variety of disciplines and countries, this book identifies the global pressures behind these trends. It focuses on the debates surrounded the commercialization of business schools, and the rise of different methods of measuring their success. In their unique approach, the authors and editors discuss the impact of the confrontation between the timeless values embodied by Minerva, the Roman goddess of Wisdom, and the hard... (More) - With business schools becoming increasingly market-driven, questionable trends have emerged, such as the conflation of academic and corporate management, and the notion that academics and students are market players, who respond rationally to market signals.
Using individual studies from leading scholars in a variety of disciplines and countries, this book identifies the global pressures behind these trends. It focuses on the debates surrounded the commercialization of business schools, and the rise of different methods of measuring their success. In their unique approach, the authors and editors discuss the impact of the confrontation between the timeless values embodied by Minerva, the Roman goddess of Wisdom, and the hard realities of competition and corporatization in modern society. (Less)
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- Huzzard, Tony LU ; Benner, Mats LU and Kärreman, Dan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017
- type
- Book/Report
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- business schools, critical management studies, lived experience, neo-liberalism, new public management
- pages
- 256 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85027100160
- scopus:85027100160
- ISBN
- 9781317277484
- 978-1-138-19120-7
- 978-1-138-19114-3
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781315640594
- language
- English
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- yes
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- f8557bbd-d22d-4950-9b99-73534deaf49b
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