MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATION: RATIONALIZATION AND REPRODUCTION IN BRITISH BUSINESS.

In this paper I intend to explore the validity of this interpretation of the significance of the institutional developments that have taken place, paying particular, but not exclusive, attention to the business schools. I shall argue that the expansion of provisions for formal management education cannot, in itself, be held to signify changes in business (2) recruitment and promotion practices even though, on the surface, the continued existence of institutions that certify managerial competence seems to imply that business recognizes the validity of this mode of assessment. I shall suggest that a simple demand model, in which the education system has merely responded to a new demand from business for "trained" managerial recruits, is insufficient to explain the growth of management education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]