Shut Down the Business School
What's Wrong with Management Education
$56.34
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
20 May 2018
Summary
Business schools are institutions which, a decade after the financial crash, continue to act as loudspeakers for neoliberal capitalism with all its injustices and planetary consequences. In this lively and incendiary call to action, Martin Parker offers a simple message: shut down the business school.
Parker argues that business schools are ‘cash cows’ for the contemporary university that have produced a generation of unreflective managers, primarily interested in their own personal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745399164 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0745399169 |
| Author: | Martin Parker |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 20 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘This is a tour de force of contemporary critical management thinking. All too often, the textbooks and the MBAs get in the way of what should be the future for business - participative, value-creating and sustainable. Read, learn… and shut down the business school’ – Ed Mayo, Secretary General, Co-operatives UK
‘Business schools are at the centre of the malaise of financialized capitalism… Parker prescribes the nuclear option - termination. His replacement is a focus upon sustainable organising that champions alternatives to more-of-the-same hierarchical organisation, market-based forms of exchange and the necessity of management’ – Hugh Wilmott, Professor of Management, Cass Business School, City University London
Martin Parker
Martin Parker has taught at business schools since 1995, including at Warwick, Leicester and Keele Universities. He is currently Professor at the Department of Management, University of Bristol. He is the author of Shut Down the Business School (Pluto, 2018) and co-author of Fighting Corporate Abuse (Pluto, 2014).
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