More success than meets the eye-a challenge to critiques of the MBA: Possibilities for critical management education?

Management Learning

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-40

  Hay, Amanda ^a   Hodgkinson, Myra ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical management education; Experience; Learning; MBA; Practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049148727     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507607085170     Document Type: Article

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