Management Learning: Integrating Perspectives in Theory and Practice

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John Burgoyne, Michael Reynolds
SAGE, Oct 28, 1997 - Business & Economics - 342 pages
Management Learning introduces the context and history of management learning and offers a critical framework within which the key debates can be understood. The book also provides an incisive discussion of the values and purpose inherent in the practice and theory of management learning, and charts the diverse external factors influencing and directing the processes of learning. The volume concludes with a look forward towards the future reconstruction of the field.

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Contents

MAKING SENSE OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING
17
Research Traditions in Management Learning
38
Management Development as a Pluralistic
54
Cultivating
71
Groups Groupwork and Beyond
89
BEING CRITICAL
105
Passion Perspective and Project
127
Management Learning as Discourse
144
VALUES AND PURPOSES
177
A Critical Reconsideration
199
Accepting the Challenge
215
DEVELOPMENTS IN DESIGN
243
Computer Support for Management Learning
282
Lessons from Informal and Incidental Learning
295
Towards a Critical Management Pedagogy
312
Looking Forward
329

Critical Management Learning
161

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About the author (1997)

John Burgoyne is now semi-retired from the Department of Management Learning and Leadershi at Lancaster University. He is a visiting Professor at University Campus Suffolk, an Associate at Ashridge and Henley Business Schools, and a Trustee at Brathay Trust.

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