6 Teaching history in business and management schools
When in 2003 Van Fleet and Wren (2005) conducted a survey of AACSB member institutions to gauge the extent to which history was present and taught within undergraduate and postgraduate course curricula, they were to be sadly disappointed with the results. Although by that time many business historians had found solitude in business schools, their teaching focused more on strategy, international business, organization studies and any number of ‘mainstream’ business subjects, rather than on bespoke business history modules. Recently, Jones (2021; p. 77) has also noted that the drive to ‘professionalize management education’ has created barriers to the incorporation ...
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