The BUSINESS SCHOOL A PROBLEM IN ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN

Abstract

Business schools are a particular species in the genus known as professional schools. The objectives of all professional schoolsengineering, medicine, law, education, business, architecture, or what notcan be stated in the same general terms: education and training for prospective or present practitioners in the profession and for persons wanting to do teaching and research in the professional school; research to advance knowledge relevant to the practice of the professions. We should expect, therefore, that at an appropriate level of generality, the organizational design problems of all professional schools will be essentially the same.2 We will not be disappointed in this expectation; and we will find it instructive to compare business schools with some of the other kinds of professional schools mentioned above.