There’s nothing as good as a practical theory: The paradox of management education

Abstract

Abstract Practicing managers, the users and consumers of management theory, are arguably not applying theories as they were originally conceived. They are using an ontologically based version of theory that is only tenuously related to its epistemological origins. Turning Lewin's famous dictum on its head, we argue that for the management practitioner there really is nothing so good as a practical theory. Keywords: historyLewinMaslowpedagogypractitioners