An Inquiry into Management Learning

Abstract

This is an edited version of an electronic conference for members of the International Advisory Board of Management Learning, in which we invited our Board to discuss 'Management Learning in the year 2000'. Over the five weeks of the conference, from late August through September 1994, those members of the Board who were technologically equipped to do so and who wished were engaged in a lively and increasingly fluent debate about a range of issues under that heading, electronically chaired by David Sims. The editors of Management Learning then edited this conference thematically, taking in turn four main strands that developed in the discussion:

* What is management learning?

* How might Management Learning build a 'community' of debate and learning?

How might Management Learning make a distinctive contribution?

* Who should shape the agenda of Management Learning?

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