The Business School Business: Some Lessons from the U.S. Experience

By Jeffrey Pfeffer, Christina T. Fong. 2004

563 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Information Systems and Management

1. Mehdi Farashahi
2. Roger Martin
3. Ronald W. McQuaid
4. David Dunne
5. Mahdi Tajeddin

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Mehdi Farashahi
2. Mahdi Tajeddin
3. M. Foster

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Mehdi Farashahi
2. Roger Martin
3. David Dunne
4. Mahdi Tajeddin
5. M. Foster

Citations in the corpus

• That’s Relevant! Different Forms of Practical Relevance in Management Science (2010, unknown): “In terms of enrolment figures and graduate salaries, the development of business schools over the last 20 years can be considered a success story ( Pfeffer and Fong 2004; Röbken 2004).”
• Effectiveness of teaching methods in business education: A comparison study on the learning outcomes of lectures, case studies and simulations (2018, background): “This trend of moving toward scientific concentration has led executives and practitioners to criticize the effectiveness of business education and its corresponding research in the practical world (Clinebell & Clinebell, 2008; Pfeffer & Fong, 2002, 2004).”
• Design Thinking and How It Will Change Management Education: An Interview and Discussion (2006, background): “The “Values” critique, exemplified by Ghoshal (2005) and Pfeffer and Fong (2004), that management education does not foster in its graduates an appropriate set of ethical values.”
• CEO demographics and accounting fraud: Who is more likely to rationalize illegal acts? (2011, unknown): “Critics of business education suggest that the focus of the curriculum is directed at increasing profits at the expense of teaching ethics and values (Gioia, 2002; Gioia and Corley, 2002; Pfeffer and Fong 2004).”
• Employer demands from business graduates (2016, background): “Furthermore, business schools are criticised for doing a poor job of educating and preparing their graduates for the world of work (Pfeffer and Fong, 2004).”