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7. Higher Education in Management: The Case of the UK

verfasst von : Abby Ghobadian

Erschienen in: The Future of Management Education

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

The genesis of modern business and management education owes much to the Urwick Committee’s report in 1945 (Argles 1964). Bryan (2009) suggests that the critical few lines in the Urwick Report were: “A valid distinction cannot be drawn between the study of management for one purpose rather than for another, nor is there anything new in the suggestion that management should be the subject of theoretical study.”

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Metadaten
Titel
Higher Education in Management: The Case of the UK
verfasst von
Abby Ghobadian
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56091-9_7

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