Socialization and the business school

• Main Author: HARNEY, Stefano
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: socialization; autonomist feminism; management education; Business; Higher Education; Politics and Social Change
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5460; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6459/viewcontent/1350507607075772__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

There is a new phase in the generalization of management capacities, but contrary to the assumptions of critical management educators, the investment in the business school has not been to socialize more students into this generalized management, but to seek the principle of generalization in these students themselves as part of a struggle between capital and labour. Using the insights of autonomist feminist theorists, this article attempts to analyse why critical management education has been unable to find a new object appropriate to this new generalization of management, and speculates on what the critical and political benefits might be of escaping older notions of the business school as a site of socialization for a social category of managers.