Management as Science versus Management as Practice in Postgraduate Business Education |
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| Authors: | James Bailey Cameron Ford |
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| Institution: | James Bailey and Cameron Ford are Assistant Professors of Organizational Behavior at the Faculty of Management, Rutgers University, where James Bailey is also Assistant Director of the Teaching Excellence Center. Both authors contributed equally to this article. |
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| Abstract: | This first article in our Special Feature on Management Education aims to set the scene and ask fundamental questions about the function and methodology of teaching business studies. The authors start by summarising the history of management education from a US perspective. Distinguishing between research and education, they then argue that in education the pendulum needs to swing away from what they call "scientism" and that management should be taught as a craft rooted in action. |
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