Rethinking Management Education for the 21st Century (Hc) (Research in Management Education & Development) - Tapa dura

Suffolk University Research in Management Education and Development (MED) is a book series to foster the advance of MED research, learning, theory, and practice. Our objective is to reflect and shape contemporary discourse about important issues that will serve both academicians preparing mainstream courses and business professionals in management education and development. The series aspires to be a ""window"" on the future and a compendium of best practices. Currency, innovativeness and relevance will inform editorial decisions. Prompt review of submitted proposals as well as timely production and marketing of the completed volume is assured. This book series will include both edited volumes comprised of articles written by specialists in various aspects of the volume's theme and single-authored books. Each volume will be devoted to an in-depth examination of a particular management education issue including but not limited to the following: Assessments of technological innovations in MED such as those based in internet technologies and other new media, creating virtual learning communities, advances in simulations and virtual reality applications, intelligent tutoring, distance MED, knowledge management and MED, use of MED in increasing the human capital of organizations, global differences and trends in MED from a comparative perspective, comparative studies of MED across industries, the social psychological context of MED, cognitive issues in MED, service learning, corporate universities, strategic approaches to management development, emerging visions of management education, approaches to structuring MED, issues in managing MED, support functions in MED, issues in the deployment of MED, MED change management, MED alliances and networks, ethical dimensions of MED, corporate cultures and MED, integrating consulting into MED, new approaches to internships and field experiences, faculty externships, assessment and accreditation of management education, comparative studies of MED curriculum development, film and fiction as MED media, and critical approaches to MED. The series of volumes will represent a wide range of organizational, industry, national and global management education and development issues.

Charles Wankel is Professor of Management at St. John's University, New York.He holds a doctorate from New York University, where he was admitted to the Beta Gamma Sigma national honor society for business disciplines. Columbia University's American Assembly identified him as one of the nation's top experts on Total Quality Management. He received the Outstanding Service in Management Education & Development Award at both the 2004 and 2005 meetings of the Academy of Management (AOM). AOM also presented its Best Paper in Management Education Award to him in 1991, and he has been selected to serve as an officer of AOM divisions every year for more than a decade.Along with Robert DeFillippi, he has been editing a multi-volume series for AOM on management education issues: the Research in Management Education & Development Series. Wankel is the leading founder and director of scholarly virtual communities for management professors, currently directing more than seven listservs with thousands of participants in more than 70 nations.(A Google search for "Charles Wankel" will provide you with an awareness of the scope of his online prominence.) He co-authored a bestselling undergraduate textbook, Management, in the 1980s with Prentice Hall, published a scholarly book on interorganizational strategy development in Poland, and numerous scholarly articles, monographs, and chapters.He has extensive international experience, ranging from the United Arab Emirates to Vietnam, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Singapore, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Mexico.He has been an invited lecturer to Harvard and Columbia, as well as the Czech Management Center, University of Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Malaysia, National University of Singapore, and University of Toronto, and he taught and researched at Kaunas Technical University in Lithuania in 1997 under a Fulbright Fellowship Grant.His current research interests include managing geographically and temporally distributed teams and new pedagogies of management education.