Synopses & Reviews
This is a provocative study of how American-led entrepreneurship transformed business education in Europe. Starting with Silicon Valley's high technology businesses, and examining business schools in France, Germany and the Czech Republic, the book shows how management education shifted in response to an increasingly entrepreneurial business context. Traditionally, training focused on learning about existing models and how to use them to best advantage; there was little room to embrace continuous change. New technologies have been liberating, enhancing variety and change in European business schools. The educational emphasis has turned now to thinking 'outside the box' - embracing technological solutions, and creating organisations in which constant transformation is an everyday phenomenon. This study is an important contribution which will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners who are concerned with how and why business is and should be taught today.
Review
"...a thoughtful essay on the difficult terrain of academia and high-tech entrepreneurship." Professor Les Hannah, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo"The Entrepreneurial Shift is an impressive achievement and makes an outstanding contribution to the literature on management education. This book is a demonstration, based on an international study, that technology changes and American entrepreneurial culture play a key role in shaping educational systems both inside and outside the USA." Alain Fayolle, Professor of Entrepreneurship, E.M. Lyon and I.N.P. Grenoble, France"A highly original account of the European response to the Silicon Valley phenomenon and the growth of entrepreneurial studies in American business schools. The book opens up a new dimension to debates about the Americanization of European business and management education." Geoffrey Jones, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Synopsis
This is a provocative and intelligent study of how high technology entrepreneurial developments have affected management education in the wider business context. Responding to the growth of new technology businesses, American business schools fostered entrepreneurship studies. Not wishing to be left behind entrepreneurially in the Information Age, France and Germany followed with their own innovative education programmes and the Czech Republic, like other emerging economies, has been caught up belatedly in this education ferment. Original, and containing new research data, the book will appeal to academics, students and practitioners.
Synopsis
A study of the influence of American-led entrepreneurship on business education in Europe.
About the Author
Robert Locke is Emeritus Professor of History, Department of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the author of The End of the Practical Man (1984), Management and Higher Education Since 1940 (1989), and The Collapse of the American Management Mystique (1996).Katja Schöne holds a Master's degree in Business Economics (BWL) and a PhD in International Relations.
Table of Contents
1. Phenomenal Silicon Valley and the second Americanization; 2. American management education - adding the entrepreneurial dimension; 3. Adjusting higher education in France and Germany to a post 1945 world; 4. Creating German and French entrepreneurship studies; 5. Networking for high tech start-ups in Germany and France; 6. The Czech Republic: an arrested development; 7. Conclusions and policy recommendations.