Management, Education and Competitiveness: Europe, Japan, and the United States (Routledge International Studies in Business Theory, 1)

Globally two processes are striking about modern management education. Firstly, management education is changing rapidly to meet new challenges from business and governments and to improve competitiveness. Secondly, management education has become one of the fastest growing areas in higher education. Management Education and Competitiveness provides a wide overview, including studies by scholars in nine countries in Europe, Japan and the United States. It examines how countries have developed different national courses in spite of strong influence from the American system of management education. It also examines the links between education and business. This collection of essays will be invaluable to managers and professionals in educational research and business administration. 1. Introduction / Rolv Petter Amdam -- 2. National Systems Versus Foreign Models In Management Education -- The Norwegian Case / Rolv Petter Amdam -- 3. American Influence On European Management Education -- The Role Of The Ford Foundation / Giuliana Gemelli -- 4. Continuities In Dutch Business Education -- Engineering, Economics, And The Business School / Huibert De Man -- 5. Business Studies And Management Education In Japan's Economic Development -- An Institutional Perspective / Tamotsu Nishizawa -- 6. Management Education In A Country In Transition -- The Case Of Slovenia / Marjan Svetlicic And Andreja Cibron -- 7. Management Education In Britain -- A Compromise Between Culture And Necessity / John F. Wilson -- 8. Do They Mean Business? An Investigation Of The Purpose Of The 'new University' Business Schools In Britain / Reva Berman Brown, Sean Mccartney And Jeff Clowes -- 9. The Institutionalization Of Industrial Administration In Norway 1950-90 -- Consequences For Education In Business Administration Of Domination By Engineering / Haldor Byrkjeflot And Tor Halvorsen -- 10. Mercury's Messengers -- Swedish Business Graduates In Practice / Lars Engwall, Elving Gunnarsson And Eva Wallerstedt -- 11. Dinosaurs In The Global Economy? American Graduate Business Schools In The 1980s And 1990s / Susan Aaronson -- 12. Managing Management Teams -- A Challenge For Management Education / Ove Bjarnar And Hallgeir Gammelsoeter -- 13. Between Academia And Business -- New Challenges For Today's Modern Business Schools / Peter Lorange. Edited By Rolv Petter Amdam. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Globally two processes are striking about modern management education. Firstly, management education is changing rapidly to meet new challenges from business and governments and to improve competitiveness. Secondly, management education has become one of the fastest growing areas in higher education.__Management Education and Competitiveness__ This title draws on contributions from nine Western scholars and forms one of the widest comparisons of national management techniques. It questions the growing role of management schools and how to improve links with business. Globally, two processes are striking about management education in the mid 1990s.