2016
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3129-3
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Business Schools at the Crossroads? A Trip Back from Sparta to Athens

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“…perspectives’ (p. 174). If we make the humanities our touchstone, we accept that management education should encompass not just technical knowledge but also personal growth, defined by Aristotle as growth in ‘virtues or character strength’ (Murcia et al, 2018: 579–581). Making the humanities a key aspect of management education means that we will need to take more seriously the role of the imagination and fiction in our economic and social life.…”
Section: Discussion: Engaging Absurditymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…perspectives’ (p. 174). If we make the humanities our touchstone, we accept that management education should encompass not just technical knowledge but also personal growth, defined by Aristotle as growth in ‘virtues or character strength’ (Murcia et al, 2018: 579–581). Making the humanities a key aspect of management education means that we will need to take more seriously the role of the imagination and fiction in our economic and social life.…”
Section: Discussion: Engaging Absurditymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As with all change, it is not enough that the facts be known for practices, institutional structures, and relationships to be reformed. There is a significant body of research on factors that protect the status quo in each ME domain (see, for example, Cornuel & Hommel, 2015; Murcia, Rocha, & Birkinshaw, 2016; Painter-Morland, Sabet, Molthan-Hill, Goworek, & Leeuw, 2016; Snelson-Powell, Grosvold, & Millington, 2016; Solitander, Fougère, Sobczak, & Herlin, 2012; Warin & Beddewela, 2016). Beyond ME, there are more general structural factors in society that stymie change efforts.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We have unquestioningly accepted faulty ontological assumptions from economic theory in which the human condition is defined by guile, selfinterest, and laziness. But we now have the opportunity to re-discover the ontological assumptions of the business organization, the business school, and the image of the manager, not in the image of a Spartan warrior, but rather in the image of the Athenian citizen (Murcia et al, 2018). We need to rethink and go beyond the limited assumptions of calculative rationality and individual self-interest to reach the deeper ontological assumptions of practical rationality and harmonious heterogeneous motivation (Rocha & Ghoshal, 2006).…”
Section: Reflections and Conclusionmentioning
confidence: 99%