Baalen, P.J. van; Karsten, L. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2004
In this paper we provide an alternative explanation for the rise of modern management schools at the turn of the 20th … schools. Management schools were viewed as the main vehicles to raise the social status of these new professions. To … abstraction they could distinguish themselves from the lay public and other professional groups in the domain of management. At …