ABSTRACT

Globally two processes are striking about modern management education. Firstly, management education is changing rapidly to meet new challenges from business and governments and to improve competitiveness. Secondly, management education has become one of the fastest growing areas in higher education.
Management Education and Competitiveness provides a wide overview, including studies by scholars in nine countries in Europe, Japan and the United States. It examines how countries have developed different national courses in spite of strong influence from the American system of management education. It also examines the links between education and business. This collection of essays will be invaluable to managers and professionals in educational research and business administration.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

Frederick Douglass in American History and American Memory

part |114 pages

Different Systems of Management Education

chapter |31 pages

American Influence on European Management Education

The role of the Ford Foundation

chapter |27 pages

Continuities in Dutch Business Education

Engineering, economics, and the business school

part |128 pages

Management Education and Business

chapter |17 pages

Management Education in Britain

A compromise between culture and necessity 1

chapter |21 pages

Do They Mean Business?

An investigation of the purpose of the 'new university' business schools in Britain

chapter |23 pages

The Institutionalization of Industrial Administration in Norway 1950-90

Consequences for education in business administration of domination by engineering

chapter |18 pages

Mercury's Messengers

Swedish business graduates in practice

chapter |15 pages

Dinosaurs in the Global Economy?

American graduate business schools in the 1980s and 1990s

chapter |19 pages

Managing Management Teams

A challenge for management education

chapter |13 pages

Between Academia and Business

New challenges for today's modern business schools