Debating Business School Legitimacy: Attacking, Rocking, and Defending the Status Quo

ISBN-13: 9783031127243 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 328 str.

Anders Örtenblad; Riina Koris

Opis

This book channels the debate on the relevance, value, and future of business schools. Could the Business School be like the Titanic, thought to be unsinkable, but ultimately doomed? And if it sinks, what of it? Or is it a ship which can adapt to the changing waters it sails in? In this book, authors from around the world debate the current and future legitimacy of the Business School from different contexts and perspectives. While some see very little or no hope at all to the future of the Business School as a legitimate centre for research and education, others remain critical, but see a way forward to rectify today’s concerns, such as around sustainability and inclusivity. This book highlights to readers thought-provoking complexities on the Business School playground and its legitimacy.

Spis treści

Part I. Background and introduction. - Chapter 1. Introducing the Debate on the Legitimacy of Business Schools (Riina Koris and Anders Örtenblad). - Chapter 2. (De)legitimacy of Managerialism within Business Schools (Katariina Juusola). - Part II. Attacking status quo. - Chapter 3. Business Schools in Their Ideological Prison: Why Sustainability Challenge Is Our Next Legitimacy Crisis (Kimmo Alajoutsijärvi, Katariina Juusola, and Kerttu Kettunen). - Chapter 4. The Reflexive Impotence and Neoliberal Neurosis of the Responsible Business School (Nikodemus Solitander). - Chapter 5. Business School Burnout: Endangering Legitimacy on Pathological Pathways (Volker Rundshagen). - Part III. Rocking the boat of status quo. - Chapter 6. The Business School in Ruins: Navigating the Multi-Stakeholder Landscape of Contemporary Management Scholarship (Brian Howieson and Ian Robson). - Chapter 7. Delegitimizing Women Management Scholars’ Underrepresentation in the Research Impact Agenda (Emily Yarrow and Julie Davies). - Chapter 8. The Myth of the Global Market for Business Education (Lars Engwall and Linda Wedlin). - Chapter 9. On How Intercultural Management Education Can Increase the Societal Legitimacy of Business Schools (Madeleine Bausch). - Chapter 10. On the Dilemmatic Legitimacy of Business Schools: The Barbell Syndrome and the Dominance of Business Degrees (Gabriel Hawawini). - Chapter 11. How Business Schools Can Graduate Business Citizens (Yusuf Sidani). - Chapter 12. The Market’s Filthy Lesson: Disruption for Business and Management Education in Australian Public Universities (Owen Hogan, Michael B. Charles, and Michael A. Kortt). - Chapter 13. How Business Schools Address Grand Societal Challenges Through Research: Personal Reflections and a Call to Arms (Graeme Currie). - Part IV. Defending status quo. - Chapter 14. Compared to What? A Realist Defense of Business School (Jason Brennan).

O autorze

Anders Örtenblad is Professor of Working Life Science at the School of Business and Law, University of Agder, Norway, and Professor II at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. He is the Editing Founder of the book series Palgrave Debates in Business and Management.

Riina Koris is Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing and Communication at Estonian Business School. Her research is on the topic of higher education and, in particular, the purpose of business education.

Blurb

“This important and sobering collection of essays on the modern business school will provoke debate and may inspire needed change. If you believe, as I do, that today’s professional schools have an obligation to help address society’s most pressing challenges through the pursuit of actionable research and practical education, you will find much value in this book.”

 

—Amy C. Edmondson, Professor, Harvard Business School, USA

“Provocative in parts but nonetheless evoking questions for business school leaders to reflect upon in deciding what to change to regain legitimacy where deemed lost; or what to retain to defend the status quo where deemed apt. Brilliant!”

—Enase Okonedo, Professor, Vice-Chancellor, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria

“Business schools have become a key part of the landscape of contemporary higher education. However, their role is proving increasingly controversial. This book demonstrates why this is so and what needs to change. This book takes us to the heart of the problems business schools face which are, alas, very much of their own making.”

—Ken Starkey, Professor of Management and Organisational Learning, Nottingham University Business School, UK

This book channels the debate on the relevance, value, and future of business schools. Could the Business School be like the Titanic, thought to be unsinkable, but ultimately doomed? Or is it a ship which can adapt to the changing waters it sails in?

In this book, authors from around the world debate the current and future legitimacy of the Business School from different contexts and perspectives. While some see very little or no hope at all to the future of the Business School as a legitimate center for research and education, others remain critical, but see a way forward to rectify today’s concerns, such as around sustainability and inclusivity.

Anders Örtenblad is Professor of Working Life Science at the School of Business and Law, University of Agder, Norway, and Professor II at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.

Riina Koris is Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing and Communication at Estonian Business School.