Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-9-2015
Abstract
Corporate funding for executive education (EE) programs perceived as too academic and not sufficiently relevant has waned in recent years. Previous investigations conducted at the macro level point to a disconnect between science and practice in business schools\, but no micro level studies have explored how faculty and managers of EE programs experience and cope with conflicting orientations that might influence the design and delivery of EE programs. Irrespective of EE program ranking\, our findings reveal enduring tensions resulting from structural and social differences between the two. Both EE faculty and EE managers feel constrained by these tensions and exercise agency to overcome them in delivering EE programs. To the potential detriment of EE programs\, however\, their efforts relieve only some structural sources of tension\, leaving social identity differences between the groups unchanged. This impedes the emergence of deep\, authentic collaboration in developing custom EE programs that can reverse waning corporate loyalty.,Doctorate of Management Programs
Keywords
group identity, social structure
Rights
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Department/Center
Design & Innovation
Recommended Citation
Bouclier, Olivier L., "Clash and Rapprochement of Practice and Science in Executive Education: A Social Structure To Collaborate" (2015). Student Scholarship. 640.
https://commons.case.edu/studentworks/640