Looking for Complication: the Case of Management Education

Pina e Cunha, Miguel; Vieira da Cunha, João; Cabral-Cardoso, Carlos

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Pina e Cunha, Miguel

Vieira da Cunha, João

Cabral-Cardoso, Carlos

Resumo(s)

This paper argues that in face of the changes occurring in the organizational world, management education should consider the need to rethink some of its premises and adapt to the new times. The need to “complicate” management learning due to increased complication in competitive landscapes, is analyzed. Four possibilities of addressing organizational topics in a complicated way are contrasted: the vertical, horizontal, hypertextual, and dialectical approaches. The promises of the dialectical approach are particularly stressed as a more demanding and potentially enriching path for the creation of knowledge about organizations. The test of the four approaches in a group of undergraduate students provides some preliminary data for analyzing the strenghts and weaknesses of our proposal.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10362/83631

Citação

Pina e Cunha, Miguel, Vieira da Cunha, João and Cabral-Cardoso, Carlos, Looking for Complication: the Case of Management Education (March, 2000). FEUNL Working Paper Series No. 394

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NSBE - Working Paper Series

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