Does the case study produce managers?

‘Theory without practice is sterile, and practice without theory is blind’— VI Lenin. ‘It is well known that when you do anything, unless you understand its actual circumstances, its nature and its relations to other things, you will not know the laws governing it, or know how to do it, or be able to do it well’—Mao Tse Tung ‘It is the weakness of all discussions about human action that they cannot guide the student to sense the tremendous difference, and its cardinal importance to the processes of management, between verbal or symbolic understanding, on the one hand, and intimate personal or emotional involvement, on the other. It is because the significance of such distinctions cannot realistically be brought out—often they are ignored—that so many young and promising graduates become disillusioned and cynical about the business world they enter.’