Give Business Historians Their Head

If scholarly knowledge management is the preferred route, then into which branch of academia should the teaching of experiential learning fall? My view is that it should be business history, even though its specialists have been only marginally successful in promoting their own discipline in most geographical areas outside the United States and Japan. For one, they are probably the best qualified at giving OM the necessary credibility, and secondly, such historians have been looking for a more constructive role for their labors for years. For industry practitioners, this reassignment should not have to displace archivists or librarians, who would still be required to maintain the institution’s records, but ...

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