Management Development: A Literature Review and Implications for Future Research – Part I: Conceptualisations and Practices Available to Purchase

Interest in management development is mushrooming. The number of articles which address different aspects of it are likewise increasing apace. This has heightened the need for a broad‐based review which will pull the material together, give shape to it, evaluate it and draw out its implications. In this, the first of a two‐part article, this task is commenced.