Robert Locke
- Affiliation: University of Hawaii
Robert R. Locke is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is one of the leading international authorities on the contentious subject of management, and the author of numerous books and articles on comparative management and management education, including The End of the Practical Man and The Entrepreneurial Shift.
Books by Robert Locke
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)