Alexander Styhre

The Business School Curriculum Debate

Scientific Legitimacy versus Practical Relevance

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how business schools seek to honour the ambition to both teach scientifically verified theories and practically useful concepts and models, and how the tensions derived from this duality may be problematic to handle.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Management Learning and Education
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781032209678
• ISBN-10: 1032209674
• Artikelnr.: 66693546

Autorenporträt

Alexander Styhre is Chair of Management and Organization in the Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: The question concerning practically relevant theories in
business school settings Chapter Two: A primer on agency theory: The agency
theory model in four propositions Chapter Three: Legal, economic, and
sociolegal views of contracts: The case of the contractual features of
corporate law Chapter Four: Advances in contract theory: Incomplete
contracts are dependent on law enforcing entities Chapter Five: The
business school as civic institution and industry-sponsored venture: On
what theories that are selected to be taught