From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

By Jos Groenewegen. 2009

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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The Legacy Motive: A Catalyst for Sustainable Decision Making in Organizations (2010, background): “Recent calls to revise the business school curriculum, due in part to the ethical lapses of graduates, have been raised both externally (Economist, 2009) and internally (Ferraro, Pfeffer, & Sutton, 2005, 2009; Khurana, 2007) to the profession.”
Rationalities of ignorance: on financial crisis and the ambivalence of neo-liberal epistemology (2012, background): “Agency theory, one of the most influential contributions of Chicago economics of the last thirty years, continues to be advocated as a rationalist solution, reducing the crisis to one of incentives (for the rise of agency theory, see Khurana, 2007).”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Institutional Theory: New Perspectives on Private Governance (2012, background): “…professional managers, a parallel story took place in US business schools, where business ethics also became an institutionalized area of study, albeit largely as a sideshow to the dominant influence of financial economics on modern understandings of the nature of the firm (Khurana, 2007).”
Identity Workspaces: The Case of Business Schools (2010, background): “In his comprehensive study of the evolution of business schools, Khurana (2007) notes that “the times seem ripe for reopening the question of what exactly this institution is for, what functions we as a society want it to perform, and how well it is performing them” (5).”
Strategy and commitments to institutional logics: Organizational heterogeneity in business models and governance (2016, background): “Historically, the field of business education was less pluralistic, with professional logics mostly dominant (Khurana, 2010).”
The bureaucratization of safety (2014, background): “If there is a role for expertise, it is not inhouse and not in management (Khurana, 2007; Mintzberg, 2004).”
Founding Teams as Carriers of Competing Logics (2014, background): “Second, as psychological and sociological literature suggests, founders imbued with a financial logic are likely to give less weight to altruistic or community-oriented considerations (Frank, Gilovich, and Regan, 1993; Ferraro, Pfeffer, and Sutton, 2005; Khurana, 2007), making it easier for them to ”
From social control to financial economics: the linked ecologies of economics and business in twentieth century America (2009, background): “…as a means to improve governance, and the activist stance of the Roosevelt administration in social and economic matters were all in part responsible for the broad reevaluation of the place of business schools in American society and higher education that took place during the 1930s (Khurana 2007).”
It’s a Bittersweet Symphony, this Life: Fragile Academic Selves and Insecure Identities at Work (2014, background): “This purpose and meaning has been further exacerbated by a literature on the history of business schools (Khurana, 2007) positing numerous charges of a lack of relevance for so-called “real life” businesses and organizations (Bennis & O’Toole, 2005).”
Toward a Behavioral Theory of Strategy (2012, background): “When a cognitively distant opportunity is identified, a conception that was not included in the agent’s initial representation of the business becomes proximate and possibly central to her representational space.”
Why Have the Leading Journals in Management (and Other Social Sciences) Failed to Respond to Climate Change? (2008, unknown): “This can mean that research topics that might challenge these ideals, including social responsibility, economic inequality, and environmental damage, may be marginalized (Hoffman, 2004; Khurana, 2007; Walsh, Weber, & Margolis, 2003).”
How relevant is the MBA? Assessing the alignment of required MBA curricula and required managerial competencies. (2009, background): “Certainly exceptions exist, but by and large, MBA programs in the United States have been established to train a professional class of managers much in the way that medical schools and law schools train groups of professionals (Khurana, 2007).”