Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-2023
Abstract
This chapter looks at the original driving forces which led to the creation of institutions, particularly in the US, including the vision of their founders which would support our perspective in favour of schools of management. It looks at the years following the Second World War and how the Ford and Carnegie ‘Foundation Reports’ as well as the Cold War led to further evolution away from a school of management to a business school mission. The chapter looks at the period roughly from 1970 to 2000 during which US business school funding, which had been largely provided by the foundations, was replaced by significant donations from individuals seeking to attach their name to a prestigious business school and how this drove a further evolution away from the broad goal of a school of management to a narrow goal of the business school.
Keywords
Business schools, higher education, management schools
Discipline
Business | Higher Education
Research Areas
Strategy and Organisation
Publication
Perspectives on the impact, mission and purpose of the business school
First Page
12
Last Page
19
ISBN
9781003390633
Identifier
10.4324/9781003390633-3
Publisher
Routledge
City or Country
London
Citation
PETERS, Kai and THOMAS, Howard.
Business schools should be schools of management: An evolutionary perspective. (2023). Perspectives on the impact, mission and purpose of the business school. 12-19.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7229
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003390633-3