The Corporatization of the Business School ─ Minerva Meets the Market

With business schools becoming increasingly market-driven, questionable trends have emerged, such as the conflation of academic and corporate management, and the notion that academics and students are market players, who respond rationally to market signals.

Using individual studies from leading scholars in a variety of disciplines and countries, this book identifies the global pressures behind these trends. It focuses on the debates surrounded the commercialization of business schools, and the rise of different methods of measuring their success. With this unique approach, the authors and editors discuss the impact of the confrontation between the timeless values embodied by Minerva, the Roman goddess of Wisdom, and the hard realities of competition and corporatization in modern society.

This book will be compelling reading for students and academics in critical management studies, organizational studies, public management and higher education, as well as for stakeholders in academia and educational policy.

Mats Benner is Professor of Science Policy Studies at Lund University, Sweden, and Associate Dean at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Tony Huzzard is Professor of Organization Studies at Lund University, Sweden.

Dan Karreman is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Professor of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.