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Business schools have served as a main institutional home for the field of strategic management since its inception and continue to be central to modern strategic management scholarship and ideas. Business schools have undergone changes during their history, and embody some of the tensions and changes that are also inherent to the field of strategic management.

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Augier, M. (2017). Business Schools. In: Augier, M., Teece, D. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94848-2_20-1

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