The coming crisis of Western Management Education

Systems Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 681-701

  Thomas, Alan Berkeley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crisis; Management discipline; Management education; Managerial knowledge; Telic institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037649867     PISSN: 08949859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02557920     Document Type: Article

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