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Wild, A (2002) The management college that never was. In: Greenwood, D (Ed.), Proceedings 18th Annual ARCOM Conference, 2-4 September 2002, Northumbria, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 2, 739–47.
- Type: Conference Proceedings
- Keywords: building; college; fragmentation; management; MBPW (Ministry of Public buildings and Works)
- ISBN/ISSN: 0 9534161 7 8
- URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ar2002-739-747_Wild.pdf
- Abstract:
The article describes and interprets the attempt of Geoffrey Rippon, Minister of Public Building and Works 1961-64, to establish a “Management College for Building” in 1963-64. The attempt becomes enmeshed in: competing strands of policy making around the establishment of business schools, the expansion of management education and employee training; initiatives which flowed from the Emmerson Report (1962) and existing provision for management education in construction. It is argued that the failure of the project is properly interpreted as evidence of construction’s ‘cohesive fragmentation’, which is replicated in the Ministry’s policy-making process. This is justified by comparing the fate of the project to that of the Building Industry Communications Research Project (BICRP), (Higgin and Jessop 1963) and the approach adopted by Emmerson himself.