In 1959, with funding from the
Ford Foundation, Gordon and
James Edwin Howell published Higher Education for Business, later known as the
Gordon-Howell report.
It is considered a key event in the history of business management and its development as a profession. The report gave detailed recommendations for treating management as a science and improving the academic quality of business schools.[6][7][8][9][10]
The next thirty years are sometimes referred to as a "Golden Age" in which quantitative social science research became an established part of business schools.[11][6]
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^McKiernan, P.; Tsui, A. S. (2020). "Responsible Research in Business and Management: transforming doctoral education". In Moosmayer, DC; Laasch, O; Parkes, C; Brown, KG (eds.). The Sage Handbook of Responsible Management Learning and Education. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publ. pp. 485–501.