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Rethinking the role of business school in creating corporate managers
Journal of Governance and Regulation
  • Khurram Parvez Raja, Zayed University
  • Muhammad Anowar Zahid, Eastern University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract

Distinguished from the traditional forms of business, namely proprietorship and partnership, a corporation emerged as a new type of business organization in the middle of the nineteenth century in American society, which accepted it only on the understanding that the corporate managers should be professionally well trained and socially beneficial (Khurana, 2010). In order to prepare these new professionals, the business schools came into being in America and elsewhere (Khurana, 2010). However, corporate scandals and financial crises of the late 20th and early 21st centuries posed a valid question about the originally expected role of corporate managers and, in turn, their educators, the business schools. This paper is an attempt to review the post-scandal notion of a corporation and the role of the managers propounded by Canals (2009) and others like Wilson (2004), Mesure (2008), and Koch (2010). It is a qualitative research that finds inadequacies with the existing scholarships and so re-conceptualizes corporation from a holistic perspective. Within that framework, it proposes that the business schools adopt a number of measures to prepare the corporate managers who would efficiently serve the interests of the shareholders and, at the same time, of other stakeholders equally including the society as a whole.

Publisher
Virtus Interpress
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Education,
  • Teaching,
  • Business Administration,
  • Business Ethics,
  • Management,
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
Scopus ID

85100692882

Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
https://doi.org/10.22495/jgrv9i4art12
Citation Information
Khurram Parvez Raja and Muhammad Anowar Zahid. "Rethinking the role of business school in creating corporate managers" Journal of Governance and Regulation Vol. 9 (2020) p. 139 - 148 ISSN: <p><a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2220-9352" target="_blank">2220-9352</a></p>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/khurram-raja/3/