Business Imitates Academe

(See also Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management, & Learning Organizations)

General Resources
Discussions of Formal Learning Programs in Business
Corporate "Universities"

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General Resources

• Chronicle of Higher Education, "Microsoft Headquarters Evokes Ambience of Campus, But 'It's Just an Office Park' " (April 24, 1998) ("At a time when colleges seem to be becoming more like businesses . . . it's ironic that some businesses seem to want to be more like colleges.")

Discussions of Formal Learning Programs in Business

• A.P. Carnevale and H. Goldstein, ed., Employee Training: Its Changing Role and an Analysis of New Data (Washington, D.C.: American Society for Training and Development)
• Chronicle of Higher Education, " 'Corporate Universities' Said to Force Business Schools to Change Their Ways," (June 18, 1998) ("The dramatic growth in the number of 'corporate universities' is forcing many business schools to change the way they operate. . . . The demand for customized programs tailored to the needs of individual companies is pushing more business schools into uneasy alliances with company-sponsored 'universities.' ") (online version for subscribers only)
• R.L. Craig and C. Evers, "Employers as Educators: The Shadow Education System," in Carnevale and Goldstein (1983)
• William H. Davidow and Michael S. Malone, The Virtual Corporation: Structuring and Revitalizing the Corporation for the 21st Century (New York: HarperBusiness / HarperCollins, 1992), pp. 190-95 ("[William Wiggenhorn, president of Motorola U.] likes to quote Cardinal Newman's nineteenth-century view of the idea university--one that creates individuals who can 'fill any post with credit' and 'master any subject with facility'--but more pragmatically speaks of raising the average literacy of company employees from seventh to ninth grade by 1995")
• N.P. Eurich, Corporate Classrooms: The Learning Business (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1984)
• M. Feuer, H. Glick, and A. Desai, "Is Firm-Sponsored Education Viable?" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 88 (1987): 121-36
• Nancy S. Nash and Elizabeth M. Hawthorne, Formal Recognition of Employer-Sponsered Instruction: Conflict and Collegiality in Postsecondary Education (College Station, TX: Assoc. for the Study of Higher Education, 1987)
• David Stern, "Institutions and Incentives for Developing Work-Related Knowledge and Skill," in P. Adler (1992), pp. 149-86
• U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, "Work-Based Learning: Training America's Workers," Contract No. 1989-253-149:48381 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Corporate "Universities"

• Disney Institute
• Motorola U.