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Shut Down the Business School: What's Wrong with Management Education


Shut Down the Business School: What's Wrong with Management Education

Hardback by Parker, Martin (School of Management, University of Leicester)

Shut Down the Business School: What's Wrong with Management Education

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ISBN:
9780745399171
Publication Date:
20 May 2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pluto Press
Pages:
224 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 - 29 May 2024
Shut Down the Business School: What's Wrong with Management Education

Description

Business schools are institutions which, a decade after the financial crash, continue to act as loudspeakers for neoliberal capitalism with all its injustices and planetary consequences. In this lively and incendiary call to action, Martin Parker offers a simple message: shut down the business school. Parker argues that business schools are 'cash cows' for the contemporary university that have produced a generation of unreflective managers, primarily interested in their own personal rewards. If we see universities as institutions with responsibilities to the societies they inhabit, then we must challenge the common notion that 'the market' should be the primary determinant of the education they provide. Shut Down the Business School makes a compelling case for a radical alternative, in the form of a 'School for Organising'. This institution would develop and teach on different forms of organising, instead of reproducing the dominant corporate model, enabling individuals to discover alternative responses to the pressing issues of inequality and sustainability faced by all of us today.

Contents

Acknowledgements Preface 1. What Goes on in Business Schools? 2. Teaching Capitalism 3. What's Wrong with Management? 4. What's Wrong with the Business School? 5. The Business School and the University 6. What is 'Management' Anyway? 7. The School for Organizing 8. The Politics of Organizing 9. What do Students Want? 10. The Business School of Tomorrow Notes Index

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