"Production management courses are often the repository for some of the most inappropriate and intellectually stultifying materials to be found in the business curriculum... many faculty members have little respect for such courses... and students complained more strongly to us about the pointlessness of the production requirement than of any other."
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Robert A. Gordon and James E. Howell, Higher Education for Business (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959), p. 190; As cited in: Wren & Bedeian (1972/2009; 474).
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