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

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,