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The Case Study as an Integrating Mechanism in Management Education
Author(s) -
Jones W G
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.1983.tb00445.x
Subject(s) - mechanism (biology) , process management , knowledge management , business , computer science , engineering management , engineering , philosophy , epistemology
Management schools, like all organizations, are faced with the need to integrate their differentiated activities to achieve organizational goals. To do this, they must devise appropriate integrating mechanisms to ensure that the efforts of their sub‐units result in the pursuit and attainment of objectives. The paper reports a business school's efforts to integrate its primary activity—teaching an undergraduate business degree—through the use of a complex case study.