...Joelle Hawa; Naomi Birdthistle; Andrew Rixon; Rosemary Fisher; Áron Perényi; Glen Bates Purpose This study investigates how business school academics experienced and navigated disruptions to their sense of belonging during the COVID-19 crisis. Responding to limited research on academic belonging...

...Owen Hogan; Michael A. Kortt; Michael B. Charles Purpose To identify key factors that are contributing to vulnerability in business schools in Australian public universities and determine the degree of vulnerability exhibited by these schools. Design/methodology/approach Using a multi-criteria...

...Cookie M. Govender; Terje I. Vaaland Purpose This paper aims to identify challenges in business school and business collaboration when implementing work-integrated learning (WIL) as a vehicle to enhance student work-life realities and possible employability opportunities. Design/methodology...

... comprises 279 undergraduate students from a business school in Malaysia. The constructs of the study are leadership, ethical values, professionalism and role of accountants as drivers of change. Exploratory factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha are used to assess validity and reliability. Descriptive...

...Thomas Clarke; Peter Lorange Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine and question aspects of the culture of the modern business school, and to investigate the possibilities for a more student oriented, more responsive, more flexible and performance‐driven culture. Design/methodology...

... schools, there has been no examination of the relationship between CEO qualifications and firm financial performance in Australia, and little elsewhere. This study therefore fills a research gap. MBA Business schools Leadership Firm financial performance Australia Master of Business Administration...

... with the inter‐disciplinary skills that employers are looking for. Various business schools have approached this concern in a multitude of ways and to varying degrees of success. This is by no means a simple task, particularly when it involves a well‐established curriculum and staff that have been involved...

...Thomas Clarke; John Rayment; Jonathan Smith Purpose Considerable debate since the global financial crisis has been evident concerning the role of business schools. This article aims to outline the authors’ research on their role. Design/methodology/approach The paper begins with an overview...

... of the dominant models of management education and to propose a range of strategic alternatives for business schools operating in the diversity of a multi‐polar world. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a critical review of the development of Anglo‐American modes of business education...

...Thomas Clarke; Sabina Siebert; Graeme Martin Purpose The dominant variance theory approaches to researching business school reputations are based on a positivistic hypothetico‐deductive research methodology and do not adequately take into account either the different levels and types of contexts...

...Thomas Clarke; Nakul Gupta; Sangeeta Shah Bharadwaj Purpose Pedagogy today has become a function of technology and this relationship becomes all the more promising when used to address the educational needs of the constantly changing and fast evolving business school education. Business schools...

...Thomas Clarke; Lorna Collins; Claire Seaman; Stuart Graham; Martin Stepek Purpose This practitioner paper aims to question basic assumptions about management education and to argue that a new paradigm is needed for UK business schools which embraces an oft neglected, yet economically vital...

... the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education in meeting the expectations and motivations of international postgraduate students. Design/methodology/approach The authors explored four questions through a survey of international students participating in entrepreneurship courses in two Business Schools: What...

...Paul Greenbank Purpose This study adopts an action research approach with the aim of improving the process of career decision making among undergraduates in a business school at a “new” university in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The study utilised unfreezing techniques, multiple case...

...Carl Senior; Robert Cubbidge; Michael J.R. Butler; Lidia Gheorghiu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate how a UK business school is addressing the Government's skills strategy through its Graduate Certificate in Management, and to identify good practice and development needs...

...Thomas Clarke Purpose This paper aims to offer a critique of the development of university business schools over the last 50 years and provide a perspective on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of the journal Education + Training. Design/methodology/approach...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> English literature Business schools Education Ranking Business Schools: Forming Fields, Identities and Boundaries in International Management Education Linda WedlinEdward Elgar2006£55ISBN: 1845425154 Keywords...

...David A. Kirby Examines the characteristics and role of the entrepreneur and the challenges for business schools posed by the need to develop more enterprising individuals. Argues that the traditional education system stultifies rather than develops the requisite attributes and skills to produce...

...Dylan Jones‐Evans; William Williams; Jonathan Deacon Earlier this year, the University of Glamorgan Business School launched a conceptually new postgraduate programme, the Diploma in Entrepreneurial practice (DEP). This is a nine‐month long, full‐time course with selected business graduates...

... Keywords Business schools, European Union, China The European Commission has made available 10.9 million euros to finance the EU-China International Business School over the next five years. The school was set up in Shanghai in 1994 to provide management training and to organize...