Business and management studies in higher education:: the challenge of academic legitimacy
International Journal of Educational Management
ISSN: 0951-354X
Article publication date: 1 October 1995
Abstract
Critics argue that the core values of higher education, including academic freedom and intellectual detachment, conflict with the more prosaic aims and ethos of business and management education. Analyses the isolation of business and management studies within this culture by reference to its epistemological, academic, institutional, doctrinal and professional identity. Argues that the ethos of business and management departments closely resembles an academic culture despite perceptions to the contrary in the wider academic community. However, acceptance of business and management in the academy as a legitimate social profession dictates the need for a broader curriculum which treats humanistic values as a central, rather than peripheral, concern.
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Citation
Macfarlane, B. (1995), "Business and management studies in higher education:: the challenge of academic legitimacy", International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 9 No. 5, pp. 4-9. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513549510095059
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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