More Success than Meets the Eye—A Challenge to Critiques of the MBA
- 1 February 2008
- journal article
- others
- Published by SAGE Publications in Management Learning
- Vol. 39 (1), 21-40
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507607085170
Abstract
Management education generally, and MBA programmes in particular, have been persistently criticized for failing to speak adequately to management practice. One response to such criticisms has been to suggest a wider consideration of critical management education (CME). Drawing on research findings from an empirical study of MBA learning, the article argues that MBA learning can be seen as more valuable to the manager in practice than critics contend. Moreover, the learning which is valued resonates with both a critical understanding of management and critical accounts of the role of management education, suggesting that a covert form of CME may already be operating. We argue that further building on this understanding provides the potential for a more prominent CME. Specifically, we propose that the experience brought to and lived within the MBA programme provides an opportunity for `problematizing' accepted ways of making sense of the world.Keywords
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