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- Title
Arranging Marriages Between Theoretical Traditions.
- Authors
Bailey, James R.
- Abstract
This article illustrates the approach developed by Michael Reynolds and Russ Vince to reform the theoretical traditions used in business education. Business school graduates are technically sophisticated but slow to productively adapt these skills to the idiosyncratic necessities of their new positions, firms, and industries. Furthermore, business school graduates are analytically adept but are enervated when formulating and enacting action plans. Finally, although often steeped in team-intense cohort experiences, business school graduates wrestle with acclimating to and leveraging the social and political dynamics of organizational life. As a mature and competitive industry, the business school ignores these widely acknowledged challenges at its own peril. The hands of academic administrators are busy indeed. Stakeholders are queried as to what features work and which are in need of repair. Reynolds and Vince feel that the job is just too big for a single tradition, and thus propose arranging a marriage between Critical Management Studies' educational variant, Critical Management Education and action-based learning. Doing so, they argue, furnishes an intellectual profile that is uniquely suited to innovate on the interplay of informal and formal learning, the natural product of which, in their words, would emphasize learning which is questioning of structures and organizational practices, would be situated in the workplace, and would encourage a focus on collective learning and reflection.
- Subjects
BUSINESS education; REYNOLDS, Michael; VINCE, Russ; BUSINESS schools; LEARNING
- Publication
Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2004, Vol 3, Issue 4, p440
- ISSN
1537-260X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/AMLE.2004.15112551