Education + Training: Volume 55 Issue 4/5

Strategies for business schools in a multi‐polar world

Stephanie Dameron, Thomas Durand

The purpose of this paper is to examine the contours of the emerging business education and institutions in a multi‐polar world and to identify the causes of the strategic…

Business school culture: customer‐focused, virtual and cooperative

Peter Lorange

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…

The future of management education in Australia: challenges and innovations

Richard Hall, Renu Agarwal, Roy Green

The purpose of this paper is to undertake a survey of the external and internal forces changing the nature of business schools and business education. It aims to investigate how…

Agility in business school education through richness and reach: a conceptual model

Nakul Gupta, Sangeeta Shah Bharadwaj

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…

Interdisciplinary business education: curriculum through collaboration

Christopher Bajada, Rowan Trayler

A modern business graduate is expected to have strong disciplinary skills as well as the soft skills of communication and team work. However today's business graduate needs to be…

The advance of the MOOCs (massive open online courses) : The impending globalisation of business education?

Thomas Clarke

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the rapid development of the massive open online courses (MOOCs) and the implications for business education, to critically examine the…

An aid to transition? The perceived utility of online resources for on‐campus first year management students

Margaret Lindorff, Tui McKeown

This paper aims to be a response to the “Call for Papers” on challenges for the practice of, and new modes of questioning and delivery in, business education. The authors seek to…

Reputational challenges for business schools: a contextual perspective

Sabina Siebert, Graeme Martin

The dominant variance theory approaches to researching business school reputations are based on a positivistic hypothetico‐deductive research methodology and do not adequately…

The future of family business education in UK business schools

Lorna Collins, Claire Seaman, Stuart Graham, Martin Stepek

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…

CEO business education and firm financial performance: a case for humility rather than hubris

Margaret Lindorff, Elizabeth Prior Jonson

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between CEO business education and firm financial performance.

The current and future role of business schools

John Rayment, Jonathan Smith

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.

Introduction

Thomas Clarke