1st Edition
Transformative Management Education The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Foreword, by William M. Sullivan
1. Introduction:
"There Is Something About the Humanities. . .": Transformative Management Education Meets the Humanities and Social Sciences
1.1: The Point of Departure: From the Carnegie Report of 2011 to the "Humanities’ Business" Research Project
1.2: Consulting the Map: Historical and Research Notes
1.3: On the Way: The "Humanities’ Business" Project’s Research Design
1.4: Nearly There: Deciding on Narrative Strategies for the Report
1.5: The Point(s) of Arrival: Key Findings and Chapter Structure
2. Transforming Education: Philosophies and Practices
2.1: "The Primary Focus Is Not the Subject, but the Student": Instrumental versus Transformative Education
2.2: "So Basically I Teach Myself": Transformative versus Instrumental Teaching
2.3: "There Is No Gap Between Theory and Practice": The Role of Professional Practice in Academic Management Education
2.4: "Knowledge You Can’t Google": Practices of Teaching Integrated Management Education
2.5: "Transformative Humanities"? Conclusions and Suggestions
2.5.1: Students’ Perspective: Start with the First Year
2.5.2: Teachers’ Perspective: Dialogical Interaction and ‘Presencing’
2.5.3: Perspectives of/on Professional Practice: A Critical Approach
3. Transforming Knowledge: Towards Tomorrow’s Needs
3.1: "A Successful Catch-all of Nothingness": Concepts of Management
3.2: The Something-Factor: What the Humanities (Are Supposed to) Know about Management and Business
3.3: Discipline Matters: Concepts of Integrated Knowledge
3.4: The Skills of Integration: Conclusions and Suggestions
3.4.1: Looking for Management: An Appeal to Business Schools
3.4.2: Leaving the Ivory Tower: An Appeal to the Humanities and Social Sciences
3.4.3: De-Sexing the Cherry: The Knowledge of Concepts
4. Transforming Business Schools: Strategic Challenges
4.1: "The Behavioural Complexity of Professors" and Other Internal Challenges
4.2: "We Need to be Able to Sell It": External Strategic Challenges
4.3: "Politics Is Everywhere": Conclusions and Suggestions
4.3.1: Academic Governance Revisited: De-Managerialising Faculty
4.3.2: Quality Management Revisited: Measuring Literacies4.3.3: Business Schools’ Branding Revisited: Showcasing Transformative Management Education
5. Conclusion: A Business Schools’ Guide to the Galaxy of Transformative Management Education
6. Coda: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
7. Afterword, by Matt Statler
8. Appendix: Panorama of Cases in Fact Sheets
9. Bibliographical References
Biography
Ulrike Landfester is a Professor of German Language and Literature at University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.
Jörg Metelmann is Associate Professor of Culture and Media Studies at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.
"Beyond the hollow rhetorics of ‘innovation’, ‘responsibility’ and ‘sustainability' that marks the contemporary business school, Transformative Management Education: The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences demonstrates that there is hope for a better way of educating students of management, entrepreneurship and economics. Ingeniously structured in genealogical, diagnostic and programmatic sections, this book offers a cornucopia of historical, empirical and future-oriented insights and reflections on what can be done at, and with, management education. I highly recommend it to teachers, university managers and everyone who is interested in rethinking and reinventing a key institution of our time."
—Timon Beyes, Professor for Sociology of Organization and Culture, Leuphana University Lüneburg and Co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education
