..., the presence of a university, and to a lesser degree the housing market. This feeds into more knowledge-based industry, which is associated with higher gross value added. Research limitations/implications The research is limited in a practical sense by the fact that UK data at this level have only become...

... methodology involved a two-stage approach in which a pilot questionnaire and short interviews with 37 students was followed by a second questionnaire to 21 academics employed at a business school at a post-1992 English university. Findings – The findings suggest that although the DBA is valued as means...

... examples for other educational institutions for how to negotiate institutional factors in pursuit of the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 United States of America Universities Curricula Online learning Managers Education...

... frameworks both for promoting discussion and prompting action that is a useful starting point for schools and academics considering implementation or engaged in reviewing their approaches to pedagogy in this area. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Universities Masters degrees Curricula...

.../methodology/approach The population of this study includes faculty members of the University of Isfahan (Iran) in 2008 (476 cases). From among these cases, 142 cases were selected based on the Cochran formula. Survey was used as the research method and a questionnaire was used for data collection. Pearson...

... and would speak to us and hopefully to those externally as well. This is not to say that our university's core values such as excellence, access, and inclusion are not important to Haas too. We used the phrase “defining principles” instead of “core values” because we wanted to identify principles...

... education in the Management Faculty of the University of Pune. Design/methodology/approach The research is descriptive and empirical in nature because the primary data were collected using the survey method through fact finding techniques such as questionnaire and interview. The main purpose...

...Satinder Dhiman; Joan Marques Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the experiences and findings of a university course in workplace spirituality in a time and stage where corporate greed and organizational instability run rampant. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyzed...

... Limited 2011 Business schools Universities Strategic change Structural innovation Centres Institutes Curricula Major trends driving change in business school programs and curricula include the globalization of markets, accelerating pace of innovation, advancing information...

... for the study were collected through a survey of 280 academic staff of a middle‐ranked Australian university. To identify the contents of the academic psychological contract, three focus groups, each comprising eight academic staff, were conducted in three schools. The ordered probit model was employed...

...James S. Pounder Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a solid basis for evaluating and enhancing university classroom leadership. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on an empirical study conducted in a Hong Kong university setting indicating the value of the full range...

...Heiko Hilse; Alexander T. Nicolai Over the past few years, corporate universities, as they are called, have become increasingly common. Independent of this, strategy process theory is also finding a place in international management research. In this paper, it will be shown that strategy process...

...Christopher Prince This paper explores the increasingly important issue of the accreditation of work‐based learning for the award of university level qualifications and divided into a number of sections. Defines accreditation and explores its historical development in the UK. This is followed...

...John E. Thompson; Jeanette Harrison Increasing demands in university management in the 1990s in the UK requires a re‐examination of the head of school’s role. The Standards are part of a radical change in the system of vocational education and training in the UK which began in 1982. A questionnaire...

...Kathy Monks; Patricia Barker This article assesses the impact of a specially designed management development course on the lives and careers of women working in universities as academics and administrators. The programme was designed and run by the authors and emerged from a combination...

... of government in influencing the “shape” of management education; the relationship between universities and their industrial clients; the necessity to continuously renew the curriculum; the desirability of collaboration between universities; appropriate use of technology as a delivery mechanism...

...Philip T. Crotty; Amy J. Soule Describes the early stages of university executive education, including MBA and non‐degree executive development programmes, and gives examples of early in‐house executive education. Examines the current university EMBA and speciality programmes and today’s in‐house...

...Peter Snow Describes the history of the development of management studies at Oxford University, including executive education, company progress and university degree courses, and outlines plans for the future. Given the academic “product” and the Oxford“branded label” the university is confident...

... of Postgraduates in Business and Management Estelle M. Phillips Open University School of Management, Milton Keynes, UK, and Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Recent research in Australia has concluded that much of our current management development technology is obsolete...

... institutions alike into significant internal changes with all the "peril" which that entails. Boot and Evans[2] suggest that through partnership, both parties can accelerate and enhance this change process. Partnerships can allow companies and universities to react effectively to external changes...