New Uses for Existing Tools? A Call to Study On-line Management Instruction and Instructors

Abstract

We present this essay as a call to attract new scholars to the study of management learning and education. Using the context of on-line management instruction as an example, we identify areas where both established management education scholars and discipline-based management researchers may apply their considerable talents to a new arena. We support our call by identifying potential linkages to relatively well-researched themes in management education research and by presenting opportunities to discipline-based scholars through the lens of a framework commonly used in human resources management. We hope such linkages inspire scholars to consider how frameworks from their fields might be employed to study issues pertaining both to on-line management instruction in particular and to management learning and education generally.