J.-C. Spender
J.-C. Spender was on the faculty at City University (London), UCLA and Rutgers, and published many academic articles and books. His most recent publication being Burton-Jones, A & Spender, JC (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Human Capital. He is researching and publishing on a new theory of managing that stands on the ancient art of rhetoric.
Books by J.-C. Spender
Confronting Managerialism
How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Their Lives Out of Balance
Robert Locke, J.-C. Spender
Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the crippling influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. In doing so, Locke and Spender show how business managers who were once well-regarded as custodians of the economic engines vital to our growth and social progress now seem closer to the rapacious ‘robber barons’ of the 1880s. In effect, responsible management has given way to ‘managerialism’, whereby… (more information)