Humanities and Arts in Management Education: The Emerging Carnegie Paradigm

摘要

The articles in this special issue tell a story about how the dominant LERCAT paradigm is being reframed-we can call this new paradigm or set of educational practices CAPRA. Agency theory (AT) is being extended and supplemented by theories of collective action (CA) in order to account for how people in firms and organizations relate to each other. Rational choice (RC) is being complemented with insights in practical reasoning (PR) as an account of how people exercise knowledge to design their worlds. Finally, logical empiricism (LE) as an account of the relationship between knowledge and the world is today being balanced with notions of experience drawn from the arts (A). If our account of this new, Carnegie-inspired paradigm holds water, then further research on future management education needs to consider (a) the ontology of knowledge, including basic assumptions and conceptualizations of what practical reasoning is, how it develops, and how it relates to the world; (b) the specific practices undertaken by contemporary artists, and the integration of these forms of action within a business school; and (c) the broader, institutional-, political-, and societal-level dynamics that might enable the emerging CAPRA approach to take root and grow.