The Business School and the Bottom Line
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2007-09-03
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521865115
ISBN-13: 9780521865111
In recent decades, business schools have become important components of higher education throughout the world. Yet, surprisingly, they have received little serious attention. This book provides a sober and evidence-based assessment, charting the history and character of business schools in the light of current debates about the role of universities and the evolution of advanced economies. Previous commentators have viewed business schools as falling between two stools: lacking in academic rigour yet simultaneously derided by the corporate world as broadly irrelevant. However, over-concern with...