How We Got into the Mess and Prospects for Getting Out

Ian I. Mitroff, Can M. Alpaslan and Ellen S. O’Connor
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Ian I. Mitroff: University of Southern California
Can M. Alpaslan: California State University

Chapter 7 in Everybody’s Business: Reclaiming True Management Skills in Business Higher Education, 2014, pp 101-113 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Business schools are broken. They split research, teaching, and learning. They split mind, body, and soul. They split business, ethics and society, and ultimately the true, the good, and the beautiful. As a result, they do not and cannot develop knowledge about how to grow ourselves in and through a dynamic society in which messes are intertwined and where recognition of intertwining is a fundamental part of the solution. In this chapter, we trace historically how business schools became the engines of fragmentation that they are today. In addition, we suggest that future Schools of Management (SOMs) will not just teach how to manage messes, but messes will be the prime idea around which they will be organized.

Keywords: Business School; Professional Status; Prime Idea; Wharton School; Foundational Knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137412058_7

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