Re-imagining business schools of the future as places of theorizing

Gaggiotti, Hugo; Simpson, Peter; Cicmil, Svetlana

Abstract

In this chapter, we argue that one of the reasons of resisting the temptation of teaching what ‘we could do and perhaps should not do’ (Eco, 2014 [1980], 107) in university Business Schools is the emphasis on the application of theories to the exclusion of theorizing. We argue that Business Schools in the future should engage in and contribute to the intellectual practice of academic theorizing and not merely to be places of reproduction, application and enumeration of theories.

• Publication Date: Mar 12, 2017
• Deposit Date: Mar 15, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 13, 2020
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: The future of university education
• ISBN: 9783319468938
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46894-5
• Keywords: theorizing, best practice learning, university accountability, critical pedagogy
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/897001
• Publisher URL: https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319468938
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Gaggiotti, H., Simpson, P. and Cicmil, S. (2017) Re-imagining business schools of the future as places of theorizing. In: Izak, M., Kostera, M. and Zawadzki, M., eds. (2017) The future of university education. 1. London: Palgrave. ISBN 9783319468938 reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan'. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319468938
• Contract Date: Mar 15, 2017