Shut Don the Business School What&39s Wrong ith Management Education [Hardcover]

Even as higher education is under attack, one area is thriving: business schools.Shut Down the Business Schoolexplains why—and builds a convincing case that they are pernicious and should be closed. Martin Parker writes his polemic from the inside, drawing on his experience as a professor of management, and showing us that business schools are little more than loudspeakers for neoliberal capitalism, designed to produce unreflective managers whose primary focus is on their own personal rewards. If we believe that universities have responsibilities to society, Parker argues, then we must challenge the very foundation of the business school and its emphasis on the market above all else.

Martin Parkeris professor in the School of Management at the University of Leicester and coauthor ofFighting Corporate Abuse, also published by Pluto Press.

“This is a tour de force of contemporary critical management thinking. All too often, the textbooks and the MBAs get in the way of what should be the future for business—participative, value-creating and sustainable. Read, learn . . . and shut down the business school.”