Making the Business School More ‘Critical’: Reflexive Critique Based on Phronesis as a Foundation for Impact
提出以实践智慧为基础的反思性批判，整合不同批判视角，探讨商学院如何通过批判性课程（如MBA的‘批判性思维’课程）增强对管理实践的影响力，促进学者与从业者的知识共创。
This paper explores how the business school can become more critical by advancing the notion of reflexive critique . Drawing on diverse literatures propounding a critical perspective, this paper integrates the various interpretations of ‘what it is to be critical’ and proposes phronesis as a foundation for responding to and extending the relevance and rigour debate by articulating what it means for business schools to have a critical impact on management practice. A phronetic analysis of management education provides an innovative lens for understanding the power of critique in engaging academics and business practitioners in the co‐creation of knowledge. This is illustrated by distilling the main insights from the experience of introducing an innovative course entitled ‘Critical Thinking’ offered to MBA students over a five‐year period. The paper discusses the importance of critique in the business curriculum and explains the rationale for introducing the course and its objectives, as well as the learning and teaching techniques employed. The analysis considers how reflexive critique can be a platform for integrating a critical analysis of management informed by management research and academic thinking in relation to business practitioners' practical experiences of managing. The paper concludes with a review of the main lessons learned and the implications for future initiatives intended to foster engagement of theory and practice and the collaboration of academics and business practitioners.