Management schools in Italy.

This essay turns upon the results of a study about the Italian management schools with which an attempt was made to single out the features of an area which appears to be in constant evolution. Characterized until few years ago by a marked opening towards the business world and its culture - but not completely out of the scholatisc values - it was found that today the area of the Italian management schools is looking for a more stable scholastic legitimation. By referring to the studies of P. Bourdieu about the French `écoles de gestion', the present bipolarism of the Italian management schools seems to be the result of their current and difficult attempt to define and structure their identity in the education area where different social groups confront each other: in particular, the social groups gravitating around the field of economic power which try to strengthen their influence in the field of cultural production and the ones gravitating around the field of intellectual power which are until now the legitimate cultural producers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]