The virtues of dialogue between academics and businessmen

Lise Arena () and Leonard Minkes
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Lise Arena: GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur
Leonard Minkes: University of Birmingham [Birmingham]

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Abstract: This article aims to understand the process of production of knowledge in the field of business organisation and in problems of administration. It argues that the acquisition of this type of knowledge is greatly assisted by the developments of dialogue between academics and industrialists. It looks at a method which has been applied in England during the period late 1940s to early 1970s in three academic seminars: the Seminar in Problems of Administration at the LSE (1947–1972); the Industrial Seminar at Birmingham University (late 1950s‒1972); and the BPhil Seminar in Economics of Industry at the University of Oxford (1957–1974). By the mid-1970s, these three seminars had ceased to exist and left room for the rapid development of management studies, on the one hand, and the formalisation of industrial economics (game theory), on the other.

Keywords: University of Birmingham; empirical realism; seminar method; Management education; business organisation; LSE; University of Oxford (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in Business History, 2019, 61 (4), pp.1 - 22. ⟨10.1080/00076791.2017.1382473⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1382473

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