Confronting Managerialism

How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance

AvRobert R. Locke,J.-C. Spender

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. Locke and Spender show that responsible management has given way to ‘managerialism’, whereby an elite caste of businessmen disconnected from any ethical considerations call the shots.The book traces the loss of managers’ earlier social concerns, amply encouraged by management education’s transformation since the 1960's, especially in the US. It also questions not only the social ethics of the US management caste but its management efficacy compared to systems of management that are highly employee participatory and dependent, such as in Germany and Japan.A unique, topical and controversial look at a subject that impacts us all.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-09-08
Mått:138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Economic Controversies
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781780320724

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Robert R. Locke is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The End of the Practical Man (2006), The Collapse of the American Management Mystique (1996), and The Entrepreneurial Shift (2004).J.-C. Spender is the author of Industry Recipes (1989) and, with Burton-Jones, the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital (2011).

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Business Schools are one of the most important institutions of our times; managerialism perhaps the dominant ideology of those times. How strange, then, that the relationship between the two has not been exposed to much serious analysis. In this excellent volume, Locke and Spender do just that and through a combination of historical and comparative international analysis explain the complex and often malign enmeshment of business schools with modern society. Written by acknowledged experts in the area, this is an important book for those who work in business schools; but an even more important book for those who don't and will be informed, astounded or perhaps appalled to discover what goes on within them.

Innehållsförteckning

ForewordIntroduction: Managerialism and Business School Education (1920-1970)1. The Failure of Management Science and the US Business School Model2. US Managerialsm and Business Schools Fail to Find Their Moral Compass3. Managerialism and the Decline of the US Automobile Industry4. Managerialism, Business Schools, and our Financial CrisisConclusion: Back to BalanceReferences