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- Title
BUSINESS SCHOOLS AND THE ROLE OF THE EXECUTIVES' WIVES.
- Authors
AMDAM, ROLV PETTER; ELIAS, ALLISON LOUISE
- Abstract
This article shows how historical studies enrich our understanding of imprinting theory and can further our knowledge about gender in business schools. In the founding period of executive education followingWorldWar II, rather than excludingwomen from participation, U.S. business schools included women as wives in the socialization process as their husbands trained for top corporatemanager positions. We contend that the imprint of the separate spheres ideology, wherebymen andwomen engaged in different aspects of social and economic life, persisted in subsequent decades despite businesss chools' efforts to more fully integratewomen into the classroom. The articlemakes two contributions to imprinting theory. First, it show showahistorical approach to studying ideological imprints from a founding period develops our knowledge as to why some imprints persist over time. Second, it extends our understanding on how to study imprints in a multilevel context. Our empirical data draw from the archives of leading business schools, as well as from academic literature, popular business articles, media reports, and a literary novel.
- Subjects
BUSINESS schools; EDUCATION of executives; GENDER; EXECUTIVES; BUSINESS students; WIVES; SOCIALIZATION
- Publication
Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2021, Vol 20, Issue 3, p300
- ISSN
1537-260X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/amle.2020.0129