Journal of Management Development: Volume 35 Issue 7

The academic triathlon – bridging the agora and academia

Santiago Iñiguez De Onzoño, Salvador Carmona

The purpose of this paper is to address the lack of relevance of business school research and how the potential gap between research and practice may be related to the lack of…

GBSN’s perspective on business education and globalization

Guy Pfeffermann

The purpose of this paper is to consider the role that business schools and other providers of management education play in a globalized world, and suggests ways in which that…

What happens if a business school disappears? The intellectual foundations of BSIS

Michel Kalika, Gordon Shenton, Pierre-Louis Dubois

The FNEGE and then EFMD have been interested in defining a methodology that would make it possible to highlight the impact of a business school on its home territory. This has led…

Pedagogical advances in business models at business schools – in the age of networks

Peter Lorange, Howard Thomas

The purpose of this paper is to focus on potential advances in pedagogy and on the process of learning in business schools. It examines innovations in teaching and learning…

Are business school deans doomed? The global financial crisis, Brexit and all that

Julie Davies

The purpose of this paper is to focus on different types of university-based business school dean (BSD) in a context of insecurities within the business school business and more…

Neglected on the front line: Tensions and challenges for the first-line manager-academic role in UK business schools

Ceridwyn Bessant, Sharon Mavin

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the first-line manager-academic (FLMA) role against a guiding hypothesis that “The first-line manager-academic role is not clearly…

Crisis management as a critical perspective

Denis Fischbacher-Smith, Moira Fischbacher-Smith

The purpose of this paper is to draw the authors experience of teaching a crisis management module within a range of MBA programmes in the UK, EU and USA. A key characteristic of…

Guest editorial

Howard Thomas, Eric Cornuel