Promoting Management Education in China Through Developing Practice-Based Management Theories: An Interview With Practitioner-Scholar Youmin Xi

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojun Zhang ◽  
Pingping Fu ◽  
Youmin Xi
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Integrate Management ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University ◽  
Education In China ◽  
Management Theories

For nearly 30 years, Youmin Xi, professor of management at Xi’an Jiaotong University, who serves concurrently as the executive president of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and pro-vice chancellor of the University of Liverpool, has been trying to find a way to best integrate management practices and management research in the East and West based on his multiple roles as a management researcher, educator, and practitioner. Being the first recipient of the PhD degree of management engineering in China, Xi has personally witnessed and lived through the development of China’s management education. In this interview, Xi believes management theories and practice can support one another and collaborate to improve management education in China. He also believes what he has been doing in developing HeXie Management Theory, a practice-based management theory, could offer educators and practitioners in the West some food for thought.

scholarly journals Debating the Ambiguous Enterprise of Management

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Hardy ◽  
Gill Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Management Education ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Many

AbstractThere are significant ambiguities surrounding the academic discipline of management, which can be analysed in terms of three major debates. First the professional status of management brings with it questions about restriction or access to management education, the control of curricular and the relative importance of basic, applied and consultancy-driven research. Second, there are debates about the changing nature of management research, which require the accomodation of increasing diversity within management theory. Finally, the ambiguities associated with these debates can be seen to have impacted on the development of management education, its accessibility and diversity. The ambiguities associated with these debates must be carefully managed if the discipline is to prosper. New organisational forms are needed to embed management teaching and research within the complex collaborative relationships of the many stakeholders involved.

scholarly journals Untangling Faculty Misinformation From an Educational Perspective: Rejoinder to “The Menace of Misinformation: Faculty Misstatements in Management Education and Their Consequences”

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-453
Author(s):  
Taiga Brahm ◽  
Tobias Jenert
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
The Future ◽  
Educational Perspective ◽  
Future Management ◽  
Management Theories

In their thought-provoking article, Giacalone and Promislo point to some problematic ideas in management education such as the adoration of materialism and competition or the notion of the economic model as a natural law. But do students really develop such ideas because they were misinformed by their teachers? Misinformation implies that what is taught is not the truth or at least not the whole truth. We suggest that the question of how to design future management education cannot be answered by only looking at what should be taught. Rather, we suggest that debates about the future of management education should not only be concerned with content but also the epistemology and the teaching of management theory. Not only does the current mainstream of management education misinform students by painting a one-sided picture of economic realities. Rather, and even more importantly, it leads students to develop misconceptions of knowledge in management science as being objective and unambiguous. Teaching students how to reflect on the assumptions behind management theories as well as their own assumptions and values might be a possible way to tackle the challenge of misinformation.

scholarly journals Debating the Ambiguous Enterprise of Management

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Hardy ◽  
Gill Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Management Education ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Many

AbstractThere are significant ambiguities surrounding the academic discipline of management, which can be analysed in terms of three major debates. First the professional status of management brings with it questions about restriction or access to management education, the control of curricular and the relative importance of basic, applied and consultancy-driven research. Second, there are debates about the changing nature of management research, which require the accomodation of increasing diversity within management theory. Finally, the ambiguities associated with these debates can be seen to have impacted on the development of management education, its accessibility and diversity. The ambiguities associated with these debates must be carefully managed if the discipline is to prosper. New organisational forms are needed to embed management teaching and research within the complex collaborative relationships of the many stakeholders involved.

Why Do Management Theories Say What They Do? Toward a Management M-Theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 598-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric H. Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Theoretical Integration ◽  
M Theory ◽  
Management Theories

There is a large and growing imbalance between the differentiation and integration of the management theory literature. As a result, the scholarly field needs better tools of conceptual integration to make sense of its varied questions, topics, disciplines, and communities. Here, I propose a language and logic for addressing this imbalance by addressing the simple but penetrating research question: Why do management theories say what they do? First, the article explores different facets to the question to reveal several alternative reasons for this differentiation. Second, it utilizes the resultant rationales for better understanding past approaches toward theoretical integration. Specifically, I construct a multidimensional framework that can be used to reconcile these rationales—that is, integrate the integrative frameworks—to propose an answer to the question. Third, it illustrates how this management M-theory (MMT) framework might be used to stitch together the broad spectrum of management theories. Fourth, it considers implications of this mapping for management research, teaching, and practice.

Microchemistry of ZnO Varistors

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 1694-1695
Author(s):  
K. K. Soni ◽  
J. Hwang ◽  
V. P. Dravid ◽  
T. O. Mason ◽  
R. Levi-Setti
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Grain Boundary Engineering ◽  
Ion Microprobe ◽  
Dopant Distribution ◽  
Important Ingredient ◽  
Zno Varistor ◽  
Zno Varistors ◽  
Zno Powder ◽  
The University

ZnO varistors are made by mixing semiconducting ZnO powder with powders of other metal oxides e.g. Bi2O3, Sb2O3, CoO, MnO2, NiO, Cr2O3, SiO2 etc., followed by conventional pressing and sintering. The non-linear I-V characteristics of ZnO varistors result from the unique properties that the grain boundaries acquire as a result of dopant distribution. Each dopant plays important and sometimes multiple roles in improving the properties. However, the chemical nature of interfaces in this material is formidable mainly because often trace amounts of dopants are involved. A knowledge of the interface microchemistry is an essential component in the ‘grain boundary engineering’ of materials. The most important ingredient in this varistor is Bi2O3 which envelopes the ZnO grains and imparts high resistance to the grain boundaries. The solubility of Bi in ZnO is very small but has not been experimentally determined as a function of temperature.In this study, the dopant distribution in a commercial ZnO varistor was characterized by a scanning ion microprobe (SIM) developed at The University of Chicago (UC) which offers adequate sensitivity and spatial resolution.

2011 BEEF FORAGE SURVEY RESULTS

EDIS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja C. Crawford ◽  
Christa L. Kirby ◽  
Tycee Prevatt ◽  
Brent A. Sellers ◽  
Maria L. Silveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
South Florida ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Development Unit ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
County Extension ◽  
Ranch Management ◽  
The University

The University of Florida / IFAS South Florida Beef Forage Program (SFBFP) is composed of county Extension faculty and state specialists.  The members, in conjunction with the UF/IFAS Program Evaluation and Organizational Development unit, created a survey in 1982, which is used to evaluate ranch management practices.  The survey is updated and distributed every 5 years to ranchers in 14 South Florida counties: Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Okeechobee, Polk, and Sarasota.  The responses are anonymous.  

Book review: Jansen, J. 2017. As by Fire: The End of the South African University. Cape Town: Tafelberg.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Jared McDonald
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
The South ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University

Dr Jared McDonald, of the Department of History at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa, reviews As by fire: the end of the South African university, written by former UFS vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen.    How to cite this book review: MCDONALD, Jared. Book review: Jansen, J. 2017. As by Fire: The End of the South African University. Cape Town: Tafelberg.. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 117-119, Sep. 2017. Available at: <http://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=18>. Date accessed: 12 Sep. 2017.   This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Strenæ Natalitiæ

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University

This chapter looks at Strenæ Natalitiæ, a volume of poems produced by the University of Oxford to celebrate the events of the birth of the Prince of Wales in 1688. The University of Oxford's Strenæ Natalitiæ was a volume of over a hundred poems, with an obligatory introductory poem contributed by vice-chancellor Gilbert Ironside. The contibutors to Strenæ Natalitiæ were not simply a cross-section of the university's membership and poetic talent, but also of its politics. In some respects, youthful naivety might have been a cause of some of the authors' willingness to embrace the birth of James Edward, despite the anxiety felt by some of their fellow authors. Some of the verse was simple, and naïve in tone. Other verses were marked by a more mystical and prophetic tone. Ultimately, the verses in Strenæ Natalitiæ were predictable in their expressions of congratulation and celebration, though some also contained carefully muted expressions of equivocation.

scholarly journals Theory, explanation, and understanding in management research

2021 ◽  
pp. 234094442110124
Author(s):  
Jean-Etienne Joullié ◽  
Anthony M. Gould
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Application Management ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
Freedom And Responsibility

Theory production has been a central focus of management research for decades, mostly because theory legitimizes both management research and, through its application, management practice as professional endeavors. However, such an emphasis on theory glosses over one of its constraining and particularized roles in scientific explanation, namely that theory codifies predictive knowledge. Committing to theory a ‘traditional’ or ‘critical’ understanding of theory, thus amounts to embracing the view that prediction is achievable within a circumscribed field of study. Such an embrace is non-controversial in natural science. However, within the realm of management studies, it necessitates and smuggles in a strawman view of human existence, one which does not accommodate freedom and responsibility. This limitation of management theory explains its inadequate utility. This article argues that alternative avenues for management research exist. JEL CLASSIFICATION: M10

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