Confronting Managerialism
Subtitle: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance
Contributors: Spender, J.-C
Series: Economic Controversies; Economic controversies
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781780320731
Subjects: Bureaucracy; Industrial management; Finance; Business; Education; Administration; Costs
Description: Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the crippling influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. It shows how business managers, once well regarded as custodians of the economic engine driving growth and social progress, now seem more like the rapacious "robber barons" of the 1880s. Confronting Managerialism is a unique, topical, and controversial look at a subject that impacts us all.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: About the series; About the authors; Tables and figure; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; title: Managerialism and business school education, 1920-1970; 1; title: The failure of management science and the US business school model; 2; title: US managerialism and business schools fail to find their moral compass; 3; title: Managerialism and the decline of the US automobile industry; 4; title: Managerialism, business schools, and our financial crisis; Conclusion; title: Back to balance; References; Index.