Re-imagining management education in post-WWII Britain: views from government and business

IF 0.8 4区管理学 Q1 HISTORY

Management & Organizational History Pub Date : 2020-03-31 DOI:10.1080/17449359.2020.1746346

M. Larson

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper questions what British management education promoters sought to create through their efforts to establish high-level business training institutes in Britain in the 1960s. In response to the landmark Robbins Report of 1963, businessmen and politicians re-imagined management education and in doing so formed a new type of management education institute to operate alongside, and ultimately to compete with, a wide variety of other methods of management preparation then in use in the country. As business conditions changed and firms – especially large ones – grew more complex, both business leaders and government ministers sought ways to prepare the next generation of managers to lead firms successfully in the long term but do so in a way that satisfied their own firms’ needs as well as those of society. Using both archival and published sources, the text explores the perspectives of those involved with the business school project as well as those interested in it as observers to determine what business leaders and government truly wanted from Britain’s future managers.

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重新构想二战后英国的管理教育:来自政府和企业的观点

摘要本文对20世纪60年代英国管理教育的推动者在英国建立高水平商业培训机构的目的提出了质疑。为了回应1963年具有里程碑意义的罗宾斯报告，商人和政治家重新构想了管理教育，并由此形成了一种新型的管理教育机构，与当时在该国使用的各种其他管理准备方法一起运作，并最终与之竞争。随着商业环境的变化和企业——尤其是大型企业——变得更加复杂，商界领袖和政府部长们都在寻找方法，培养下一代管理者，使他们能够长期成功地领导企业，但这样做的方式既要满足自己企业的需求，也要满足社会的需求。利用档案和已发表的资料，本书探讨了那些参与商学院项目的人的观点，以及那些作为观察者对它感兴趣的人的观点，以确定商业领袖和政府真正想从英国未来的管理者那里得到什么。

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期刊介绍： Management & Organizational History (M&OH) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish high quality, original, academic research concerning historical approaches to the study of management, organizations and organizing. The journal addresses issues from all areas of management, organization studies, and related fields. The unifying theme of M&OH is its historical orientation. The journal is both empirical and theoretical. It seeks to advance innovative historical methods. It facilitates interdisciplinary dialogue, especially between business and management history and organization theory. The ethos of M&OH is reflective, ethical, imaginative, critical, inter-disciplinary, and international, as well as historical in orientation.