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Informationen zum Autor John Burgoyne is now semi-retired from the Department of Management Learning and Leadershi at Lancaster University. He is a visiting Professor at University Campus Suffolk, an Associate at Ashridge and Henley Business Schools, and a Trustee at Brathay Trust. Klappentext Management Learning introduces the context and history of management learning and offers a critical framework within which the key debates can be understood. The book also provides an incisive discussion of the values and purpose inherent in the practice and theory of management learning, and charts the diverse external factors influencing and directing the processes of learning. The volume concludes with a look forward towards the future reconstruction of the field. Zusammenfassung Provides an intergrating framework for understanding the nature of management learning as process and practice. The text includes an introduction to the subject's context and history! and discusses the values and purpose inherent in the practice and theory of management learning. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART ONE: MAKING SENSE OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING From Management Education and Development to the Study of Management Learning - Stephen Fox Research Traditions in Management Learning - Mark Easterby-Smith and Richard Thorpe The Arena Thesis - John Burgoyne and Brad Jackson Process Philosophy and Management Learning - Robert Chia Cultivating `Foresight¿ in Management Groups, Groupwork and Beyond - Richard Boot and Michael Reynolds PART TWO: BEING CRITICAL Problematical Premises, Presumptions, Presuppositions and Practices in Management Education and Training - Ian Cunningham and Graham Dawes The Gender Agenda - Richard Boot and Morgan Tanton Passion, Perspective and Project Management Learning as Discourse - Norman Fairclough and Ginny Hardy Critical Action Learning - Hugh Willmott PART THREE: VALUES AND PURPOSES Management Learning Perspectives on Business Ethics - Robin Snell The Developmental Approach - Monica Lee A Critical Reconsideration New Technology and Management Learning - Vivien Hodgson Accepting the Challenge Collaborative and Self-Reflective Forms of Inquiry in Management - Judi Marshall and Peter Reason PART FOUR: DEVELOPMENTS IN DESIGN Interpreting Action Learning - Mike Pedler The Internationalization of Management Learning - Anna Lorbiecki Towards a Radical Perspective Computer Support for Management Learning - David McConnell Lessons from Informal and Incidental Learning - Victoria Marsick and Karen Watkins Towards a Critical Management Pedagogy - Michael Reynolds Reconstruction Looking Forward ...