Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction: the story in short; PART I Revisiting the foundations of management education and research; 1. Social sciences and management sciences: convergences or divergences?; 2. Proposition for a comparative history of education in law and management: about the notion of jurisprudence; 3. Management as a basic academic field: foundation, roots and identity; PART II Redesigning the contents of management education and research; 4. To what extent is management research legitimate? 5. Redesigning business management education: functional silos versus cross-functional views --
a historical and social perspective6. Building more sustainable and responsible firms: proposals for a science of acceptable design; 7. Relevance and irrelevance of management research: some European hope; PART III Redesigning the institutional setting of management education and research; 8. Evaluating management education and business schools in context; 9. Evaluating programmes of management education: the EFMD perspective. 10. Performativity, metatheorising and journal rankings: what are the implications for emerging journals and academic freedom?PART IV How to proceed from here? Illustration with two SFM position papers; 11. What about books in the evaluation process?; 12. Journals and journal rankings; Index.

Management education and research has evolved over the last few decades and scholars continue to debate the methodologies employed and the value of the output to the real world. This book offers a systematic critical analysis of this evolution. The contributing authors argue that a sort of a bubble formed in the world of business schools: intense competition among schools boosted the field but it also gave rise to rankings and a race for publication as a way to build reputation and access funding. As a result, less attention has been paid to important questions about the quality of teaching,