Reinventing the Management Education Industry – A Revolution in the Making

Abstract

In management education today there are strong voices for change, demanding to find a new balance between generic learning and understanding the problems of practice. There is also a growing need to complement managerial competence building with leadership education which provides the insight, execution skills, and attitudes to confront today’s complex leadership challenges, says Derek F. Abell. According to the author inspirations for change in management education can be found in the almost seamless relationship between student learning, research and practice itself, which is typical for the Bauhaus or the great teaching and research hospitals. Abell presents an outline for how to use and how to combine the case method of learning, project work or action learning, with the overall goal to bridge the gap between theory and practice.