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The Business School Curriculum Debate: Scientific Legitimacy versus Practical Relevance book cover

1st Edition

The Business School Curriculum Debate Scientific Legitimacy versus Practical Relevance

By Alexander Styhre Copyright 2023
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge
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With more than 14,000 business schools worldwide, what is included in their curricula matters for how the economy and the corporate system are managed. Business schools should be subject to scholarly inquiries and critical reflection. While many studies of business schools examine its general role in the tertiary education system and in society more broadly, this volume examines how one specific... Read more

Chapter One: The question concerning practically relevant theories in business school settings

Chapter Two: A primer on agency theory: The agency theory model in four propositions

Chapter Three: Legal, economic, and sociolegal views of contracts: The case of the contractual features of corporate law

Chapter Four: Advances in contract theory: Incomplete contracts are dependent on law enforcing entities

Chapter Five: The business school as civic institution and industry-sponsored venture: On what theories that are selected to be taught

Biography

Alexander Styhre is Chair of Management and Organization in the Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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