Management education for archivists, information managers, and librarians: is there a global core?

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Evans, G. Edward^{; 1}

Affiliations: Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA

Note: [1] Amended version of a working paper presented to the Joint Meeting of ICA, FID and IFLA, Vienna, August 1983.

Abstract: The paper reports the results of an analysis of 35 American management textbooks and identifies 17 concepts that could be considered “core”. Each concept (accountability, accounting, authority, budgeting, change/innovation/creativity, communication, controlling, decision making, delegation and organization, ethics, fiscal management, leadership, staffing) was defined in non-cultural terms in an attempt to show that the concepts should be global in scope,

DOI: 10.3233/EFI-1984-2404

Journal: Education for Information, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 295-307, 1984