Whither the MBA? Or the withering of MBAs?

Management Learning

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 405-423

  Welsh, M Ann ^a   Dehler, Gordon E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Action research; Critical pedagogy; Critical realism; Legitimation crisis; Management education; MBA programmes; Ontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548845348     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507607080572     Document Type: Article

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