Purpose – This paper aims to show how pioneering organizations can reinvent management practice by simultaneously implementing five fundamental shifts aimed at achieving continuous innovation and disciplined execution. Design/methodology/approach – The paper looks at five transformations...

Examines the incongruency between what business schools teach and what business organizations actually need. Suggests a need for reform. Explores the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation standards and suggests that this needs much clarification. States that...

In the mid‐1980s a group of leading British retail companies jointly identified a mismatch between their graduate recruitment requirements and the motivation of graduate applicants and entrants. Many graduate entrants had a personal goal of being appointed to a head office post and many were...