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The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The findings detailed in this report are based on responses from a total of 2,710 individuals surveyed between January and December 2022. Prospective students who responded represent those interested in various MBA and business master's program categories, including full-time MBA, professional MBA, executive MBA, master's in management and international management, and other specialized business master's programs. Responses used for analysis included candidates who are at different stages of the GME journey, including those who are actively applying to business schools or currently doing research about graduate business degrees. This year, the information gleaned from the Prospective Students Survey is being released in a nine-part series for easier consumption and improved user experience. Each regional report showcases results from the 2023 Prospective Students Survey by candidates' country of citizenship, residence, and preferred destination of study. This regional report showcases results from North America. [The following individuals made significant contributions to the publication of this report: Quan Yuan, Alexandria Williams, and Kun Yuan.]

The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The findings detailed in this report are based on responses from a total of 2,710 individuals surveyed between January and December 2022. Prospective students who responded represent those interested in various MBA and business master's program categories, including full-time MBA, professional MBA, executive MBA, master's in management and international management, and other specialized business master's programs. Responses used for analysis included candidates who are at different stages of the GME journey, including those who are actively applying to business schools or currently doing research about graduate business degrees. This year, the information gleaned from the Prospective Students Survey is being released in a nine-part series for easier consumption and improved user experience. Each regional report showcases results from the 2023 Prospective Students Survey by candidates' country of citizenship, residence, and preferred destination of study. This regional report showcases results from Europe. [The following individuals made significant contributions to the publication of this report: Quan Yuan, Alexandria Williams, and Kun Yuan.]

The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The findings detailed in this report are based on responses from a total of 2,710 individuals surveyed between January and December 2022. Prospective students who responded represent those interested in various MBA and business master's program categories, including full-time MBA, professional MBA, executive MBA, master's in management and international management, and other specialized business master's programs. Responses used for analysis included candidates who are at different stages of the GME journey, including those who are actively applying to business schools or currently doing research about graduate business degrees. This year, the information gleaned from the Prospective Students Survey is being released in a nine-part series for easier consumption and improved user experience. Each regional report showcases results from the 2023 Prospective Students Survey by candidates' country of citizenship, residence, and preferred destination of study. This regional report showcases results from Latin America. [The following individuals made significant contributions to the publication of this report: Quan Yuan, Alexandria Williams, and Kun Yuan.]

The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The findings detailed in this report are based on responses from a total of 2,710 individuals surveyed between January and December 2022. Prospective students who responded represent those interested in various MBA and business master's program categories, including full-time MBA, professional MBA, executive MBA, master's in management and international management, and other specialized business master's programs. Responses used for analysis included candidates who are at different stages of the GME journey, including those who are actively applying to business schools or currently doing research about graduate business degrees. This year, the information gleaned from the Prospective Students Survey is being released in a nine-part series for easier consumption and improved user experience. Each regional report showcases results from the 2023 Prospective Students Survey by candidates' country of citizenship, residence, and preferred destination of study. This regional report showcases results from Middle East and Africa. [The following individuals made significant contributions to the publication of this report: Quan Yuan, Alexandria Williams, and Kun Yuan.]

The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The findings detailed in this report are based on responses from a total of 2,710 individuals surveyed between January and December 2022. Prospective students who responded represent those interested in various MBA and business master's program categories, including full-time MBA, professional MBA, executive MBA, master's in management and international management, and other specialized business master's programs. Responses used for analysis included candidates who are at different stages of the GME journey, including those who are actively applying to business schools or currently doing research about graduate business degrees. This year, the information gleaned from the Prospective Students Survey is being released in a nine-part series for easier consumption and improved user experience. Each program report showcases results from the Prospective Students Survey by preferred program type of study. This program report showcases results from the following Business Master's Program Types: (1) Master of Finance; (2) Master of Data Analytics; (3) Master of Management; (4) Master of International Management; and (5) Master of Marketing. [The following individuals made significant contributions to the publication of this report: Quan Yuan, Alexandria Williams, and Kun Yuan.]

The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The findings detailed in this report are based on responses from a total of 2,710 individuals surveyed between January and December 2022. Prospective students who responded represent those interested in various MBA and business master's program categories, including full-time MBA, professional MBA, executive MBA, master's in management and international management, and other specialized business master's programs. Responses used for analysis included candidates who are at different stages of the GME journey, including those who are actively applying to business schools or currently doing research about graduate business degrees. This year, the information gleaned from the Prospective Students Survey is being released in a nine-part series for easier consumption and improved user experience. Each regional report showcases results from the 2023 Prospective Students Survey by candidates' country of citizenship, residence, and preferred destination of study. This regional report showcases results from Asia and the Pacific Islands. [The following individuals made significant contributions to the publication of this report: Quan Yuan, Alexandria Williams, and Kun Yuan.]

The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The findings detailed in this report are based on responses from a total of 6,596 individuals surveyed between January and December 2021, as well as responses from more than 152,000 individuals surveyed between the years 2009 and 2021. This year, the information gleaned from the Prospective Students Survey is released in a nine-part series for easier consumption and improved user experience. Each regional report showcases results from the 2021 Prospective Students Survey by candidates' country of citizenship, residence, and preferred destination of study. This regional report showcases results from Latin America. [The following individuals made significant contributions to the publication of this report: Alexandria Williams, Kun Yuan, Devina Caruthers, Tacoma Williams, and Matt Hazenbush. For "Demand for Graduate Business Degrees. Overview Report. Prospective Students Survey 2021," see ED626825.]

The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The findings detailed in this report are based on responses from a total of 6,596 individuals surveyed between January and December 2021, as well as responses from more than 152,000 individuals surveyed between the years 2009 and 2021. This year, the information gleaned from the Prospective Students Survey is released in a nine-part series for easier consumption and improved user experience. Each regional report showcases results from the 2021 Prospective Students Survey by candidates' country of citizenship, residence, and preferred destination of study. This regional report showcases results from North America. [The following individuals made significant contributions to the publication of this report: Alexandria Williams, Kun Yuan, Devina Caruthers, Tacoma Williams, and Matt Hazenbush. For "Demand for Graduate Business Degrees. Overview Report. Prospective Students Survey 2021," see ED626825.]

The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The findings detailed in this report are based on responses from a total of 6,596 individuals surveyed between January and December 2021, as well as responses from more than 152,000 individuals surveyed between the years 2009 and 2021. This year, the information gleaned from the Prospective Students Survey is released in a nine-part series for easier consumption and improved user experience. Each regional report showcases results from the 2021 Prospective Students Survey by candidates' country of citizenship, residence, and preferred destination of study. This regional report showcases results from Europe. [The following individuals made significant contributions to the publication of this report: Alexandria Williams, Kun Yuan, Devina Caruthers, Tacoma Williams, and Matt Hazenbush. For "Demand for Graduate Business Degrees. Overview Report. Prospective Students Survey 2021," see ED626825.]

The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The findings detailed in this report are based on responses from a total of 6,596 individuals surveyed between January and December 2021, as well as responses from more than 152,000 individuals surveyed between the years 2009 and 2021. This year, the information gleaned from the Prospective Students Survey is released in a nine-part series for easier consumption and improved user experience. Each regional report showcases results from the 2021 Prospective Students Survey by candidates' country of citizenship, residence, and preferred destination of study. This regional report showcases results from Middle East and Africa. [The following individuals made significant contributions to the publication of this report: Alexandria Williams, Kun Yuan, Devina Caruthers, Tacoma Williams, and Matt Hazenbush. For "Demand for Graduate Business Degrees. Overview Report. Prospective Students Survey 2021," see ED626825.]

The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The findings detailed in this report are based on responses from a total of 6,596 individuals surveyed between January and December 2021, as well as responses from more than 152,000 individuals surveyed between the years 2009 and 2021. This year, the information gleaned from the Prospective Students Survey is released in a nine-part series for easier consumption and improved user experience. Each regional report showcases results from the 2021 Prospective Students Survey by candidates' country of citizenship, residence, and preferred destination of study. This regional report showcases results from Asia and the Pacific Islands. [The following individuals made significant contributions to the publication of this report: Quan Yuan, Alexandria Williams, Kun Yuan, Devina Caruthers, Tacoma Williams, and Matt Hazenbush. For "Demand for Graduate Business Degrees. Overview Report. Prospective Students Survey 2021," see ED626825.]

The Prospective Students Survey is one of the Graduate Management Admission Council's (GMAC) keystone research programs. The global graduate management education (GME) community has relied on data from this survey to gain insights about candidates' decision-making processes when considering and applying to graduate business schools since 2009. The findings detailed in this report are based on responses from a total of 6,596 individuals surveyed between January and December 2021, as well as responses from more than 152,000 individuals surveyed between the years 2009 and 2021. Prospective students who responded represent those interested in various MBA and business master's program categories, including full-time MBA, professional MBA, executive MBA, master's in management and international management, and other specialized business master's programs. This year, the information gleaned from the Prospective Students Survey is being released in a nine-part series for easier consumption and improved user experience. Related regional reports showcase results from the 2021 Prospective Students Survey by candidates' country of citizenship, residence, and preferred destination of study. This overview report contains the following sections: (1) Graduate Management Education Decisions; (2) Program Choice; (3) School Selection Criteria; (4) Study Destination Considerations; and (5) Methodology. [The following individuals made significant contributions to the publication of this report: Alexandria Williams, Kun Yuan, Devina Caruthers, Tacoma Williams, and Matt Hazenbush. For the related regional reports, see ED626826, ED626827, ED626828, ED626829, and ED626830.]

Ideal for faculty and administrators looking to blend business education and the liberal arts, this toolkit combines exemplary syllabi from 26 leading institutions with step-by-step strategies to advocate successfully for curricular innovation. Conceived with comprehensiveness in mind, these resources cover both inspiration and implementation for those seeking to drive innovation on their own campuses. The courses and curricula were selected from a diverse group of institutions which include liberal arts colleges, business schools, and universities. The strategies for change it includes were honed over years of convening the Aspen Undergraduate Consortium. This toolkit is presented with the business and societal needs of the future of work in mind. Whether the effects of disruptive new technology or changing workplace dynamics, business innovation frequently creates situations that feel unprecedented. That makes equipping students with the intellectual resources to lead in those situations critical. Put another way: in preparing students for a professional path that points to uncharted waters, "Charting a New Course" is deeply pragmatic.

Sociologists are paying increasing attention to the business and financial elites that control today's global economy; indeed, there's a great need to understand who these elites are, what they do, and what makes them tick, as individuals, and as a class. But we also need to understand how the economic elites aremade in the current social and economic system, and one significant way of doing this, is by examining elite business schools, that is, the institutions that aim to train and prepare people to assume important leadership and decision-making positions in business, finance and related sectors of critical importance to the management of modern capitalism. Based on the notion of consecration, I empirically examine how the student union of Sweden's premier business school, The Stockholm School of Economics, offers its members a learning environment partly separated from the school, and how this semi-independent organization contributes to making undergraduate students socially, morally and esthetically meritorious for elite jobs in primarily management consulting and finance; a process that is largely shaped by corporate actors that participate formally and informally in the student union activities. The paper contributes to the sociological literature on business schools and higher education and elites, both theoretically through the twin notions of meritocracy and consecration, and empirically through its unique focus on student union activities in an elite business school setting.

Business schools, and universities providing business education, from across the globe have increasingly engaged in responsible management education (RME), that is in embedding social, environmental and ethical topics in their teaching and research. However, we still do not fully understand the institutional pressures that have led to the adoption of RME, in particular concerning under-researched regions like Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Hence, we undertook what is to our knowledge the most comprehensive study into the adoption of RME in CEE to date (including 13 countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine). We find that, with regard to RME, isomorphic pressures seem to shape teaching and research in different ways, which suggests that the idea of a holistic approach to RME, promoted by, for example, the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME), needs to be revisited; rather, different trajectories of organizational engagement may emerge for each principle. As a contribution to institutional theory, we discuss how a highly fragmented organizational field—like RME with its multiple dimensions—impacts on notions of actor centrality, where actors achieve centrality with regard to some dimensions of the field but fail to do so for others. In particular, we found that the European Union holds centrality in the area of RME teaching, but not in RME research. Our findings thus suggest that the concept of field centrality needs further clarification.

Purpose: The objective of this study is to determine whether sustainability practices of business schoolsimprove the internationalization of the institution and its notoriety and thereby increase studentsatisfaction.Design/methodology:The sample considered in this study consisted of 272 Spanish business schoolgraduates. The data was collected via an online survey during the first quarter of 2020. To validate thehypotheses and the model, structural equation modelling was carried out using a robust method. Findings:Business schools’ commitment to sustainability not only has an ethical component but alsoimproves their positioning, leading to a greater competitive advantage.Practical implications:The results obtained point to sustainability practices facilitating entry processesinvolving joint agreements among business schools and leading to accreditation and/or sustainabilitypolicies.Originality/value:This study examines external variables which have rarely been tested and areconsidered as being highly relevant to achieving high satisfaction among business school graduates, Peer Reviewed

Corporate social responsibility, business ethics and sustainability - often bracketed under responsible management education (RME) - are topics that are increasingly adopted by universities and business schools across the globe. However, one region where our knowledge regarding the extent of RME is still limited is Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Bringing together a team of scholars (currently or formerly) based throughout the region, we were able to conduct the largest survey to date of RME practices in the CEE region, covering 13 countries. Our findings suggest that, at a declarative level, RME is very much present at CEE universities and business schools, in particular in terms of teaching. However, a pro-RME rhetoric is not necessarily backed-up with substance; in particular, a lack of financial resources was identified as the major barrier to greater engagement with RME practices. We also observed a gap between commitment to RME in teaching versus in research, which could be a potential source of concern as teaching should be informed by research; otherwise faculty remain dependent on imported teaching materials. We contribute to strengthening the RME agenda in management education by discussing the implications of our findings for individual faculty, business school leaders, governments and international associations of management education.

The Background: The globalization of the business world and the ongoing internationalization of many organizations have profound consequences for societies and economies. National economies, the Austrian and Swedish being the examples in this study, are globally intertwined and export dependent. When businesses search for opportunities outside national borders, employees will engage with diverse groups of stakeholders while conducting daily business and pursuing organizational goals. Additionally, due to migrations, the available workforce is becoming increasingly diverse. Business schools have an obligation to educate graduates who are "ready for life." To stay relevant, business programs, specifically in marketing and sales, need to deliver not just subject-specific knowledge but also give students the chance to increase their intercultural competence.Purpose: This study contributes to the discussion on business schools' role in improving students' intercultural competences and the necessity to align learning outcomes with future market needs. Study design/methodology/approach: The content analysis of 240 qualified recruitment advertisements was conducted to investigate, in line with signalling theory, how employers' express their requirements and expectations in recruitment advertising. Findings/conclusions: The empirical study shows that ads frequently describe work environments as culturally diverse. Most reviewed advertisements contain references to interactions with partners and customers across national borders. However, there is a weak connection between the work situation described in the ads and the skills required to tackle diversity. While foreign language and communication skills are frequently listed as requirements in those ads, intercultural competence is seldom a requirement. Even if not vocalized, evidence suggests that future graduates will increasingly need intercultural competence.Limitations/future research: The study was conducted based on a

This contribution examines individual benefits of continuing higher education courses provided by a business school. Lifelong learning is important when it comes to keeping up with changing professional requirements and conditions. Adult education and training courses in the form of continuing higher education offer an organized and systematic possibility to further develop oneself. However, empirical evidence on the benefits to graduates is sparse. This article aims to expand the state of knowledge through a Swiss case. Using univariate and multivariate analyses of survey data (n = 1,615), benefits contributing to the satisfaction with practice oriented non-formal education for working professionals are examined. The analyses focus on satisfaction with one of three types of continuing education programs as a measure for the overall benefit to the graduates. The findings provide important indications for the design of continuing education programs in the context of professional higher education. They reveal that subjectively, monetary benefits as well as increases in personal competence are secondary to the overall benefit accrued through the completion of courses. Instead, career development and the enhancement of specific professional competence significantly contribute to the satisfaction of professionals completing continuing higher education. &nbsp, + ID der Publikation: hslu_96719 + Art des Beitrages: Wissenschaftliche Medien + Sprache: Englisch + Letzte Aktualisierung: 2023-06-19 14:36:21

This volume provides unique and profound insights from within educational institutions in diverse regions of the world on how ‘learning outside’ and ‘learning inside’ can be holistically integrated, so that the sustainable development agenda does not remain static and programmatic, but a creative and permeable framework. The shared hope across the thirteen chapters, which constitute complete original essays on the theme, is to develop meaningful, interdisciplinary curricula and research projects which serve the human community as a whole. The aim of the editors is directed towards a similar United Nations’ valuable ideal: to advance knowledge in respect of the earth and the future generations who will inherit it.

The internationalization of higher education has gained in theoretical and empirical importance in recent decades. In this context, this article aims to describe and analyze the internationalization of business schools from the activities of their academics and based on the propositions defended by the Social Exchange Theory (SET). To achieve our goal we conducted 39 interviews with academicsfrom business schools in the United States and Brazil, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and University of Sao Paulo (USP). We found that: (i) there are individual rewards that are not addressed by SET; (ii) there are benefits to third parties not covered by SET; (iii) certain non-rational choices are not provided by SET; and (iv) the condition of equivalence between costs and rewards provided by SET has its weaknesses. With these findings we add theoretical and empirical contributions to our theme., A internacionalização do ensino superior vem ganhando importância teórica e empírica nas décadas recentes. Nesse contexto, este artigo objetiva descrever e analisar a internacionalização de escolas de negócios a partir das atividades dos acadêmicos e com base nas proposições defendidas pela Teoria da Troca Social (SET, do inglês Social Exchange Theory). Para atingir nosso objetivo, conduzimos 39 entrevistas com acadêmicos de escolas de negócios dos Estados Unidos e do Brasil, incluindo Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), Harvard, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) e Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Temos como principais achados: (i) existem recompensas individuais que não são abordadas pela SET; (ii) há benefícios para outras partes interessadas que não são contemplados pela SET; (iii) há certas decisões não racionais não previstas pela SET; (iv) e a condição de equivalência entre custos e recompensas prevista pela SET apresenta fragilidades. Com esses resultados, trazemos contribuições teóricas e empíricas para a temática., A internacionalização do ensino superior vem ganhando importância teórica e empírica nas décadas recentes. Nesse contexto, este artigo objetiva descrever e analisar a internacionalização de escolas de negócios a partir das atividades dos acadêmicos e com base nas proposições defendidas pela Teoria da Troca Social (SET, do inglês Social Exchange Theory). Para atingir nosso objetivo, conduzimos 39 entrevistas com acadêmicos de escolas de negócios dos Estados Unidos e do Brasil, incluindo Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), Harvard, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) e Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Temos como principais achados: (i) existemrecompensas individuais que não são abordadas pela SET; (ii) há benefícios para outras partes interessadas que não são contemplados pela SET; (iii) há certas decisões não racionais não previstas pela SET; (iv) e a condição de equivalência entre custos e recompensas prevista pela SET apresenta fragilidades. Com esses resultados, trazemos contribuições teóricas e empíricas para a temática.

Background: Business schools are one of society’s most influential institutions as they contribute to transforming and influencing the way the business world works. Hence, business schools bear responsibility for the creation of future, socially aware, graduates. Accordingly, the business industry expects business schools to educate future managers enhancing sustainability and ethical standards. Although it is argued that graduates in business schools get taught many professional skills and abilities to gain economic success, ethical and sustainable practices are often neglected. The schools are getting criticism for providing education distant and irrelevant to industry demands. Purpose: This study aims to create a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of responsible management education (RME) in business schools. The research can hopefully provide valuable insights, both practically and academically, for both the investigated school and other business schools while also providing a richer and more holistic view of the subject. Method: This single-case study uses an exploratory and abductive research approach. Empirical data have been collected through semi-structured interviews with participants from Jönköping International Business School. Data has also been collected through document analysis. To understand and analyze the findings, thematic analysis has been used. Findings: The findings show that RME has been implemented in various ways, both because the school itself believes it is highly important, but also because of the pressures stemming from various stakeholders and other institutional forces. Progress is found to have been made, yet the effects of that progress were not acknowledged significantly by either students or document analysis which might be due to a lack of a common definition of both RME and sustainability amongst staff and faculty. For the school to remain attractive, it is found important to continue its work towards RME and put equal e

International business education (IBE) scholarship is extensive and is continuously growing. Nevertheless, to date there is no systems perspective overview of the literature dedicated to this topic. Using latest advancements in scientometric analysis, this study structures and visualizes the entire IBE scholarship, which allows to identify gaps in research and propose a number of future research directions. Data extracted from 894 peer-reviewed documents made available through the Scopus database allows to map the scholarship across five identified research directions in IBE – IB, political economy environment, and education; student learning and experience; the lingua franca and communication; interrelationship of IBE and the ecosystem; and business school curricula and internationalization. The scholarship was also compared to the Academy of Management Learning and Education and to the Journal of International Business Studies together with the Journal of World Business journal scholarships to recommend further prospective directions for the future development of IBE.

Business colleges and college should think often about the basic issues and their alumni play a significant part as they are the future managers and supervisors of the worldwide society. Therefore, a worldwide change is required in business schools and colleges. Basically, refers to the genuine content and use of the idea and the concept of responsible management education, as well as to the impact that influences the Responsible Management Education on student’s behavior. Early the nations who adopted the Responsible Management Education have ruined the school from completely the objective, learning, and the larger region. The developing assemblage of examination on responsible management education by giving a long viewpoint that features the unpredictability of adjusting an academic organization to this groundbreaking instructional method. The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the Principle of responsible management education and how the business schools and colleges adopted the PRME initiative and the incorporation of Responsible Management Education into the syllabus of b-schools and the objective to make future responsible managers. But the modern way shows that the course structure and education techniques are not much effective and are not able to support the Principle of Responsible Management Education objective.

Over the past two decades, prompted in part by a series of corporate scandals, different views have been voiced about why US business schools have purportedly lost their original ambition to become professional schools and, thus, making “management” a “true” profession and how it could be restored. This paper puts these debates into a longer-term perspective, by showing that these claims have been present for more than a century. The paper examines the evolving rhetoric of the protagonists and their critics over five periods, each marked by different contexts, which shaped the ambitions of schools of business to be recognized as professional schools. These claims, the paper shows, had a common thread for over one hundred years, which was the recurring reference to other professional schools, namely those of medicine and law, and at times engineering, which had already achieved the coveted status when US business schools first originated. What we ultimately argue is that, given the rhetorical nature of these claims, suggestions that business schools lost their way or ought to return to some idealized past are largely futile. Future discussions should therefore focus on purpose and power rather than profession.

Earth system science (ESS) has identified worrying trends in the human impact on fundamental planetary systems. In this conceptual article, we discuss the implications of this research for business schools and management education (ME). We argue that ESS findings raise significant concerns about the relationship between business and nature and, consequently, a radical reframing is required to embed economic and social activity within the global sustainability of natural systems. This has transformative implications for ME. To illustrate this reframing, we apply the ESS lenses of social-ecological interdependence, multiscalar relations, environmental governance, and environmental values to the ME functional domains of institutional purpose, social context and engagement, pedagogical practice, curricular design, and research focus. Our work contributes to the literature on business education for sustainability and the business-society-nature nexus. We explore and apply key ESS findings and concepts, discuss normative implications of these ideas, and offer guidance on transformational pathways for business schools and ME.

[EN] Whereas the institutional drivers of the accountability discourse and the apparatus of performance evaluation accompanying such a discourse in the neoliberal university are well documented, their implications at the individual level have received lesser interest. Our paper suggests that more attention be paid to the voices and the experiences of the “governed”. It accounts of the unfairness of the accountability regime in higher education, and more specifically in business schools, as it is perceived by scholars in France. Using insights from the institutional complexity (IC) and organizational justice (OJ) literatures, as well as an empirical analysis of the French business scholars’take on their changing work context and the metrics against which their performance is assessed, our study extends the understanding of the implications of organizations’ rewards, incentives, performance control and evaluation practices for OJ. Moreover, it deconstructs the narrative of the accountability regime by reminding that institutional complexity leaves very little room for many scholars to be star researchers, excellent program managers, innovative and inclusive pedagogues as well as impactful public servants at the same time without hindering other academic missions they value (disinterested collegiality, care, social inclusion), their quality of life, family, and or health.

Grounded in sociological agency theory, the authors study the role of the faculty research incentive system in the academic research conducted at business schools and business school health. The authors surveyed 234 marketing professors and completed 22 interviews with 14 (associate) deans and 8 external institution stakeholders. They find that research quantity contributes to the research health of the school, but not to other aspects of business school health. r-quality of research (i.e., rigor) contributes more strongly to the research health of the school than research quantity. q-quality (i.e., practical importance) of research does not contribute to the research health of the school but contributes positively to teaching health and several other dimensions of business school health. Faculty research incentives are misaligned: (1) when monitoring research faculty, the number of publications receives too much weight, while creativity, literacy, relevance, and awards receive too little weight; and (2) on average, faculty feels that they are insufficiently compensated for their research, while (associate) deans feel they are compensated too much for their research. These incentive misalignments are largest in schools that perform the worst on research (r- and q-) quality. The authors explore how business schools and faculty can remedy these misalignments.

peer-reviewed, This article seeks to provoke that human resource management (HRM), both as an academic field of study and as a form of professional practice, is at risk of impoverishment. The main reasoning for this is because of ideological individualism and marketisation with an attendant neglect on wider organisational, employee, and societal concerns. Following a review of the context of financialised capitalism, three contemporary developments in HRM are used to illustrate the argument: reward strategies, talent management, and high performance work systems. Implications for the practice of HRM and the way the subject area is taught in mainstream business schools are considered., peer-reviewed

Business schools are the “nurseries” of the corporate world. This article offers an empirical analysis of the business student ethos on the basis of research conducted at three Dutch universities. A theoretical framework in the tradition of virtue ethics and dubbed “moral ethology” is used to identify the values business schools convey to their students. The central research question is: What types of ethos do Dutch business students have? Forty‐three undergraduate students participated in Q‐methodological research, a mixed qualitative–quantitative small‐sample method. Five different types of ethos were generated: Do‐Good Managers, Market Managers, Searching Managers, Balancing Managers, and Radical Market Managers. Some general characteristics that apply to all the types of ethos were identified, such as the search for efficiency. It is argued that business schools should pay much more attention to the values that are endorsed in both life and business and should help students to address situations in which values are neglected.

Studenten van het minorprogramma International Management & Consultancy hebben in het studiejaar 2018-2019 toekomstscenario’s voor de HR Business School opgesteld. Aanleiding was de vorming van de Hogeschool Rotterdam Business School (HRBS) vanuit drie onderwijsinstituten van Hogeschool Rotterdam en de gevoelde noodzaak na te denken over het onderwijsconcept in het licht van recente en toekomstige ontwikkelingen in de externe omgeving. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd met behulp van de scenario-gebaseerde strategieontwikkelingsmethode van De Ruijter. Eerst zijn trends en ontwikkelingen die relevant zijn voor de HR Business School geïdentificeerd en geclusterd naar impact en onzekerheid. Vervolgens zijn vanuit deze trends en ontwikkelingen vier toekomstscenario’s voor het hoger beroepsonderwijs binnen het Economisch Domein in 2025 geschetst. Daarna is via stresstests bepaald wat het effect van elk van deze toekomstscenario’s op de strategische positie en de huidige plannen van de HR Business School zou zijn. Tenslotte is een strategische roadmap opgesteld waarmee de business school zich beter op elk van de verschillende scenario’s kan voorbereiden.

The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of business education in Disaster Risk Management (DRM). This paper aims to evaluate the awareness level of the Master in Business Administration's (MBA) students regarding the importance disaster risk management (DRM) plays. This paper develops a literature review concerning the concept of disasters, Disaster Risk Management, Disaster Risk Reduction, and the role of MBA programs. Furthermore, a survey at Universidad EAFIT (Medellin, Colombia) was designed and implemented as primary source information with the purpose of showing the DRM awareness level of MBA's students. Finally, a case study connecting DRM with entrepreneurship formation is described. This paper identified a limited formal education in DRM Latin American MBA programs, and specifically at Universidad EAFIT. Additionally, a lack of awareness in MBA's students about the importance of DRM was identified. In this sense, the paper proposes a DRM education model that uses a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and entrepreneurial formation in business education. This study aims to show the importance of the inclusion of disaster risk reduction and management knowledge as part of the courses in: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainability, and Entrepreneurship content in Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programs.

In recent decades there has been an avalanche of numbers in public life and academia is no exception. Among Business Schools the competition for status has forced them to apply for various accreditations. While the number of studies pointing to the fact that increased reliance on performative technologies (PT) tends to challenge the academic ethos is quite large, less attention has been paid to the process of how the technologies becomes so powerful that they starts to appeal to the inner mentalities of the professionals. This paper address this by casting lights on an AACSB accreditation process at a Swedish university and how it takes on different roles as it (un)consciously lure people to internalise the underlying logics and construct calculating selves. By applying the CMIS-framework (Englund & Gerdin, 2019) the purpose is to explore the different roles and psychological mechanisms that the PT play and appeal to. The results demonstrate how different roles and psychological mechanisms appear in different stages of the construction process. Early on the PT allows individuals to realise themselves; thereby persuading them to conduct different forms of subjectivising work upon themselves. However, as the PT is put into practice the repressive and coercive forces become more perceptible."

Drawing on contemporary and historical discourse around UK business schools and insights from the sociology of scientific knowledge, we argue that business schools should be understood and judged, not as they typically have been, as engines of knowledge production, but as engines of credibility production. Credibility, we argue, is central to the attractiveness of business schools to students and other key stakeholders and therefore credibility, and the mechanisms through which credibility are maintained, should be at the center of strategic thinking within business schools. We argue that over-reliance on funding from corporate sources can have profound consequences for the ability of schools to continue to produce credibility. This article focuses primarily on the experiences of business schools in the UK.

[EN] Admission tools have become imperative means for private schools to handle both limited space and the search of excellence. We use a supervised algorithm to predict the score of admitted students in a private-run Spanish business school. The main target is understanding the effects of the features defined in the admission process to assess both the validity of the process and the final ranking of the student after one year in the school, trying to ascertain what is the best mix of the variables in place to forecast the final score of the students when ending their first year in the BBA; along with the mix, we also want to define the decision rules allowing the best prediction. The results will prove that the present admission process in place is working properly even if some fine tuning could be set in place for an even better performance.

Introduction. Leadership is being taught in business schools to provide students with skills in decision making, for example, within different subjects in business schools such as in ICN Business School. Purpose. The purpose of this study is to describe the student’s adoption of business school leadership ideals and values. Theoretical Framework. Implementation of theories of transactional-transformational leadership and charismatic-visionary concerning the leadership ideals of the study. Leadership ideals and leadership values correlate and correspond to the leadership styles mentioned. Methodology. Qualitative study operating in-depth interviews and surveys. Study operationalized in Bavaria, South Germany, where three business schools have been investigated for 3 months (mid-April 2019 - early May 2019). Findings. The findings of the study are the similarity of the students with the business school’s core values where a leadership ideal can be conveyed. The leadership values in detailed seem to be conveyed, and another part not entirely conveyed. Analysis. Leadership values are analyzed through SPSS results. Leadership ideals are analyzed through results of leadership values. Leadership values, leadership styles. Leadership values are all put in correlation. Conclusion. Leadership ideals are fully conveyed to students from business schools through the choice of leadership style. Leadership values are partly conveyed.

The purpose of this article is to examine the problem of possible but unintended collusion between business schools and their Master of Business Administration (MBA) students, specifically as it relates to the recent need to promote ethical behaviour in business practice in a global context. The focal point of the article is on the relationship between MBA programmes and candidates in the context of guanxi in modern business and political environments. The article revisits the concept of guanxi philosophically and connects it to social responsibility and moral obligation in business education. The authors contend that guanxi may have been interpreted too loosely as networking, thus fostering an approach that ignores the important moral dimensions of the concept. The more philosophical approach, which includes such concepts as moral obligation, is recommended to safeguard the integrity of recruiting, student–teacher development, and the coursework of MBA programmes in the People’s Republic of China. In considering the practical implications, the article covers the re-examination of guanxi as a moral concept, the judicious application of caution when considering applicants based on their work experience, the use of free and independent academic judgment when questionable decisions and behaviours occur, and the open discussion of ethical decision-making in course activities.

Business administration as a study choice has been explained via its practicality, high societal status and prestige, and as an opportunity for upwards mobility. Shahzad, Ahmed, and Ghaffar (2013) describe “the nature” of business as a study choice that matches extroversion and dominance. The stories of our participants’ reconstruct the businessperson, broadening it. For them business studies needs to contain the values of equality, work-family balance, permanent responsibility towards current and future generations, and skirts, sweatpants and ponytails as truthful pictures of the businessperson of the future.. The linguistic constructions that challenge business masculinity in these life stories hold the power to modify business education.

The adoption of market orientation practices at the Higher Education Institutions is a rising trend, since the challenges of changing the global higher education environment raise a growing issue for meeting the needs of the global market. Developing an appropriate strategy to cope with all of the requirements of the global education market changes and competitive pressures is especially challenging for University Business Schools in transition countries. The paper is based upon an identification of a variety of theoretical perspectives about the global education market, its trends and influences on those schools in the aspects of market orientation. Conceptual framework analysis was used to characterise the market orientation of Business Schools as an opportunity for the strategic business model of University Business Schools in transition countries. Key factors and indicators for understanding their environment were identified, structured and categorised within a theoretical framework. These factors reflect the evolving context of reformation of the existing business model of University Business Schools in transition countries in a comprehensive way, since the framework outlines the complexity of their adaptation, considering the linkages and dependencies of all the crucial global external in internal environment trends and aspects. The authors suggest that, in order to align their business model more adequately to the global market needs and develop a sustainable competitive position, University Business Schools from transition countries have to follow the market orientation principles, taking into account also the limitations and challenges from a wider social and institutional environment. © 2018, Technical University of Liberec. All rights reserved.

This document presents a proposal to classify the Colombian administration faculties with undergraduate programs based on indicators of knowledge generation. This study was developed under quantitative parameters in which a process of comparative and interpretative analysis of the information contained in specialized academic rankings of the year 2017 was carried out, as well as of the data obtained from the research groups and postgraduate programs of the best universities that are consigned in their websites and in the GrupLac platform of Colciencias. The final classification contains nineteen programs and provides an overview of the status of some of the best undergraduate programs in Administration in Colombia. It is concluded that it is necessary to improve the ratio of postgraduate programs versus quality and quantity of research groups, which would allow the Faculty of Administration with the worst positions to improve their quality indicators of their undergraduate programs., Este documento presenta una propuesta para clasificar las facultades de administración colombianas con programas de pregrado a partir de indicadores de generación de conocimiento. El trabajo se desarrolló con parámetros cuantitativos en el que se realizaba un proceso de análisis comparativo e interpretativo de la información contenida en rankings académicos especializados del año 2017, así como de los datos obtenidos de los grupos de investigación y de los posgrados de las mejores universidades que se encuentran consignados en sus sitios web y en la plataforma GrupLac de Colciencias. La clasificación final contiene diecinueve programas y entrega un panorama del estado de algunos de los mejores programas de pregrado en Administración de Colombia. Se concluye que es necesario mejorar la razón programas posgraduales versus calidad y cantidad de grupos de investigación, lo cual permitiría a las facultades de Administración con peores posicionamientos mejorar sus indicadores de calidad de sus programas de pregrado.