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Looking for complication: The case of management education

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  • Miguel Pina e Cunha
  • Joao Vieira da Cunha
  • Carlos Cabral Cardoso

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This paper argues that in face of the changes occurring in the organizational world, management education should consider the need to rethink some of its premises and adapt to the new times. The need to complicate management learning due to increased complication in competitive landscapes, is analyzed. Four possibilities of addressing organizational topics in a complicated way are contrasted: the vertical, horizontal, hypertextual, and dialectical approaches. The promises of the dialectical approach are particularly stressed as a more demanding and potentially enriching path for the creation of knowledge about organizations. The test of the four approaches in a group of undergraduate students provides some preliminary data for analyzing the strenghts and weaknesses of our proposal.

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  • Miguel Pina e Cunha & Joao Vieira da Cunha & Carlos Cabral Cardoso, 2000. "Looking for complication: The case of management education," Nova SBE Working Paper Series wp394, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics.
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    1. Miguel Pina e Cunha, 2003. "Time travelling: organisational foresight as temporal reflexity," Nova SBE Working Paper Series wp426, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics.

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