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Management & Organizational History, Vol. 3, No. 2, 147-160 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1744935908092136

There's nothing as good as a practical theory: The paradox of management education

Terrance Weatherbee

Acadia University, terrance.weatherbee{at}acadiau.ca

Kelly Dye

Acadia University, kelly.dye{at}acadiau.ca

Albert J. Mills

St Mary's University, albert.mills{at}smu.ca

Practicing managers, the users and consumers of management theory, are arguably not applying theories as they were originally conceived. They are using an ontologically based version of theory that is only tenuously related to its epistemological origins. Turning Lewin's famous dictum on its head, we argue that for the management practitioner there really is nothing so good as a practical theory.

Key Words: history • Lewin • Maslow • pedagogy • practitioners


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