Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how appreciative inquiry (AI) as a pedagogical tool can be generative in nature creating opportunities for development and change in a business school context. Design/methodology/approach – Using a qualitative approach this research involved...

Purpose – With significant change as an ongoing challenge, the development and use of a flexible change curriculum is identified as a success factor that will allow an organization to optimize the outcome from change transformations. Design/methodology/approach – After discussing significant...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a common business school framework based on knowledge resources that are available in business schools. To support the arguments made based on review literature, the paper presents the holistic framework of knowledge resources in a business...

There is incongruity between what business schools teach and what business organizations actually need. Hence, the criticism of business school graduates as “corporate burdens” incapable of functioning as competent managers. The discordant note of change is gripping the traditional academy...

Using the analogy of expensive trains heading for a crash, asserts that business schools must learn to do what they teach – i.e. become learning organizations – if they are to stay relevant in a rapidly changing world. Offers advice to schools on how to change, describing learning...

Charts the development of the training industry from the 1960s training boards to the new training and enterprise councils. Decries the rapid proliferation of business schools, suggesting that the provision of management training has become a production line. Asserts that change and flatter...

Brings up and examines the concept of a business school as a learning organization. Discusses the issue of change as a stimulus to learning ‐ as businesses face new challenges, so, therefore, do business schools ‐ hence the necessity to become a learning organization. Proposes the idea of...

It is often assumed by management in different workplaces that the people who work there acquire their training before they take up a job or that they are trained in their job. Learning is a lifelong process that should be embraced by all workers. Increasing interest is being placed on companies...

This article provides experiential based insights into the process of organizational transformation, changing not only the organization’s structure and practice but also the thinking and quality of interaction among the people who compose it. It traces the two‐year change process undertaken...