...Christophe Lejeune Purpose This paper aims to understand how an external assessment of resources, activities and performance contributes to continuously develop capabilities for business schools. Design/methodology/approach The EQUIS accreditation framework is reorganized into a capability...

... about. We cannot say ‘well, it wasn't our fault’ when there is such a systemic, widespread failure of leadership”. How research gets counted and rated and funded, informs how business schools operate. How business schools operate, both in teaching and research, informs both the products...

...Howard Thomas; Howard Thomas; Xiaoying Li Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strategic profiles and differences across globally leading business schools. Design/methodology/approach This paper used the concepts of strategic group identity and domain consensus to examine...

...Howard Thomas; Julie Davies; Howard Thomas Purpose During the last 40 years, the growth and impact of UK business schools have been significant. Relatively few studies have reviewed how business school deans emerge and grow. This paper aims to explore the experiences and psychometric profiles...

... schools. Findings There is a lack of female business school candidates, recruitment, retention and re‐entry of women into the workforce, There is the need for more women at board level. Originality/value The paper emphasises the importance of the teaching of ethics in business schools and looks...

... on the decisions made about the ideas presented here. Originality/value This paper provides some interesting insights into the development of management as a regulated profession. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Management history Education Business schools But who can resist...

... of management, which closes down and inhibits opportunities for management to be “done differently” and for organisations to be different. Reflecting on the author's experiences within two business schools and on their empirical research carried out over six years, the paper provides substantive arguments...

...Chester C. Cotton; John F. McKenna; Stuart Van Auken; Matthew L. Meuter Professional schools, including collegiate business schools, are pulled in two opposing directions. The academy, where they live, pulls them to emphasize science and its values, and to focus on expanding the field of knowledge...

...David Weir; Clive Smallman The paper considers the need for an evolution in managerial skills in the twenty‐first century, and considers the required change in the nature of business schools and management development. Considering the history of management development in the UK and overseas...

...Ray Wild Presents a personal view from a business school perspective on some of the issues in an era of rapid change and internationalization of business, facing management development – defined here as programmes and activities specifically provided to enhance the knowledge, abilities...

...Carol Oliver; Sandra Pass; Jayne Taylor; Pamela Taylor A questionnaire‐based survey of a business school′s MBA graduates draws conclusions on their entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial leanings. The authors suggest that specific combinations of personal characteristics and support systems will make...

...A.H. Walle Business schools started as the intellectual “poor relations” of the academic world. To make up for this, business scholars intellectualised their work via the recognised methodology of the scientific method. But whilst this created intellectual respect, it often distanced business...

...Philip Kotler Marketing “guru” Professor Philip Kotler′s address to a business school graduation ceremony exposed some of his views on issues such as the marketing and positioning of business schools, marketing strategy, and employee involvement in marketing. An anecdotal piece. Business schools...