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 … century. We argue that these schools were not just responses of the higher education system to the demand of industrializing … companies for a new class of professional managers, like Chandler suggests. Based on our historical research we found that the …