Herbert A. Simon on What Ails Business Schools: More than 'A Problem in Organizational Design'

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 619-639

  Khurana, Rakesh ^a   Spender, J C ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carnegie perspective; Management education; Sociology of knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859499734     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2011.01040.x     Document Type: Article

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