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Higher Education in Management: The Case of Canada

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Canada is a bi-cultural country and this has contributed to the development of a two-tier government system. As a result, education has been a provincial endeavour—even though the central government has found several ways to have its say in education, mostly through stipend programmes for students and academics.

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  1. 1.

    Two reports were particularly influential in this evolution: the so-called Carnegie Report, coordinated by Pierson in 1959, and the other financed by the Ford Foundation and coordinated by Gordon and Howell, published in the same year.

  2. 2.

    The discrepancy between the percentages of business professors and business degrees granted in Table 10.1 should be noted.

  3. 3.

    See for instance Schneck (1978).

  4. 4.

    See for instance Nathalie Dyke (2006).

  5. 5.

    See for example Sumantra Ghoshal (2005), Khurana (2007), Hopper and Hooper (2009).

  6. 6.

    Mintzberg (2015).

  7. 7.

    See Danny Miller (1990).

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Appendix 1: Historical Evolution of Median Academic Salaries in Universities and Business Schools in Canada, Selected Years 1970–2000

Appendix 1: Historical Evolution of Median Academic Salaries in Universities and Business Schools in Canada, Selected Years 1970–2000

 

1970–1971

1975–1976

1980–1981

1985–1986

1990–1991

1995–1996

2000–2001

All ranks in universities

$14.225

$22.575

$35.500

$50.075

$66.200

$72.950

$79.675

All ranks in business schools

$14.400

$22.075

$34.175

$48.050

$64.275

$72.775

$83.175

Business as a percentage of university

101.2 %

97.8 %

96.3 %

96.0 %

97.1 %

99.8 %

104.4 %

Source: UCASS (University and College Academic Staff System); ended in 2012

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Chanlat, JF., Joly, A. (2017). Higher Education in Management: The Case of Canada. In: Dameron, S., Durand, T. (eds) The Future of Management Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56091-9_10

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