Management education in historical perspective / Lars Engwall and Vera Zamagni, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engwall, Lars.

Zamagni, Vera.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Study and teaching.

Management.

Business education.

Physical Description:

xiii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

The main historical events that have shaped present-day management education are examined in a representative sample of European countries and in Japan. By the end of the nineteenth century local educational traditions were already confronted with the emerging American paradigm, but they had to face a massive transfer of American managerial prescriptions and methods after the end of the Second World War. The different reactions of the national educational systems to the American challenge is analyzed according to a fourfold typology discussed in the introductory chapter, while the effectiveness of the US paradigm is critically evaluated in the closing chapter. This book is of a particular interest and relevance, as management education constitutes a significant and growing feature of the modern systems of higher education all over the world.

Contents:

1.1 Corporate governance and management education 1

1.2 The historical development 3

1.3 The adoption of the American model 10

1.4 Further homogenization? 15

2 The German Handelshochschulen, 1898-1933: a new departure in management education and why it failed / Heinz-Dieter Meyer 19

2.2 The origin of the Handelshochschulen as independent institutions 20

2.3 Ehrenberg and the Verband fur das kaufmannische Unterrichtswesen 23

2.4 From trade school to applied business science 25

2.5 The loss of autonomy: strong mandarins, weak business class 28

3 British and Italian management education before the Second World War: a comparative analysis / Francesca Fauri 34

3.1 The educational context 34

3.2 The beginnings 36

3.3 Developments in the interwar years 40

3.4 Are managers born or made? 43

4 The big push: the export of American business education to Western Europe after the Second World War / Jacqueline McGlade 50

4.1 The first path: the creation of the USTAP 51

4.2 The second step: linking American universities and European business reform 55

4.3 The final step: the internationalization of American business education 58

5 The making of Viking leaders: perspectives on Nordic management education / Lars Engwall 66

5.2 The recruitment of managers 67

5.3 The institutional development 72

5.4 Characteristics of the Nordic business schools 78

6 The development of managerial human resources in Japan: a comparative perspective / Tamotsu Nishizawa 83

6.1 Introduction: equal opportunity and competition 83

6.2 Prewar schools and universities 84

6.3 Americanization and postwar management education 87

6.4 The Japan Productivity Centre and the diffusion of in-firm training 89

7 The hidden business schools: management training in Germany since 1945 / Matthias Kipping 95

7.1 Introduction: the German model of management education 95

7.2 Company-based leadership selection and its drawbacks 96

7.3 University education of German managers and its critics 98

7.4 The crucial role of further management training 101

8 Management education in postwar Britain / Nick Tiratsoo 111

8.2 Early initiatives and their impact, 1945-60 111

8.3 The push for business schools, 1960-65 115

8.4 Growing dissatisfaction and backlash, 1965-85 118

8.5 The road to the Management Charter Initiative 120

8.6 Into the 1990s: problems remain 121

8.7 Explaining the UK pattern 123

9 The 'enclosure' effect: innovation without standardization in Italian postwar management education / Giuliana Gemelli 127

9.2 The ambivalence of the 1950s 128

9.3 The static 1960s: the Italian case in the European context 136

9.4 The catching up of the 1970s and its limits 137

9.5 A new trend? 138

10 Mistaking a historical phenomenon for a functional one: postwar management education reconsidered / Robert R. Locke 145

10.2 Management education and the reputation of American management 146

10.3 US-style management education in Germany and Japan 147

10.4 Have business schools actually harmed management? 151

10.5 Business schools and management 154.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-171) and index.

ISBN:

0719051835

OCLC:

38925302