ABSTRACT

This paper questions what British management education promoters sought to create through their efforts to establish high-level business training institutes in Britain in the 1960s. In response to the landmark Robbins Report of 1963, businessmen and politicians re-imagined management education and in doing so formed a new type of management education institute to operate alongside, and ultimately to compete with, a wide variety of other methods of management preparation then in use in the country. As business conditions changed and firms – especially large ones – grew more complex, both business leaders and government ministers sought ways to prepare the next generation of managers to lead firms successfully in the long term but do so in a way that satisfied their own firms’ needs as well as those of society. Using both archival and published sources, the text explores the perspectives of those involved with the business school project as well as those interested in it as observers to determine what business leaders and government truly wanted from Britain’s future managers.

摘要

本文质疑英国管理教育倡导者通过努力在1960年代在英国建立高级商业培训机构而试图创造的东西。为了响应1963年具有里程碑意义的《罗宾斯报告》，商人和政治家重新构想了管理教育，并以此为基础建立了一种新型的管理教育学院，与其他各种管理准备方法并肩作战，并最终与之抗衡。在该国使用。随着业务条件的变化以及公司（尤其是大型公司）的日趋复杂，企业领导人和政府部长都在寻求方法，以培养下一代管理人员以长期成功地领导公司，但这样做必须使自己的公司满意。需求以及社会需求。