Journal of Management Development: Volume 33 Issue 5

The business school model: a flawed organizational design?

J.C. Spender

There has been considerable discussion recently about business schools’ shortcomings and how their curriculum should be changed. Many presume discipline-wide agreement that…

From relevance to relevate: How university-based business school can remain seats of “higher” learning and still contribute effectively to business

Robert Chia

The purpose of this paper is to tease out the real value-adding contributions university-based business schools can make to the business community and to society at large without…

Implementing liberal management education through the lens of the other

Tom Estad, Stefano Harney, Howard Thomas

The purpose of this paper is to explore the prerequisite conditions for implementing a liberal management education and for fostering ethical students using examples from the core…

Engaging with engagement: how UK business schools could meet the innovation challenge

Richard Thorpe, Richard Rawlinson

The purpose of this paper is to explore how business schools can better engage with business practice, building on literature that highlights their lack of impact and questions…

Global leadership development, strategic alignment and CEOs commitment

Jordi Canals

Global corporate strategy has moved faster than global leadership development in many companies. This outcome has created some leadership problems: global companies may not have…

Future scenarios for management education

Howard Thomas, Michelle Lee, Alexander Wilson

Business schools are facing unprecedented challenges, ranging from financial sustainability in some quarters to waning demand for the MBA to the potentially disruptive impact of…

Transforming business school futures: business model innovation and the continued search for academic legitimacy

Howard Thomas and Eric Cornuel