Business schools face significant challenges in terms of faculty recruitment, retention and development, with datasuggesting that there are worrying shortfalls in terms of numbers of PhD students graduating and taking up facultypositions in UK business schools (Francis, 2005). Add to this...

Business schools, both in the UK and internationally, face serious challenges as to their future role and legitimacy.Questions have been raised about the value of the MBA degree, and its role as a preparation for management. Thegrowth of business schools as sites for knowledge production has...

A significant part of the activity of the UK Department Of Trade and Industry (DTI) is concerned with enhancingbusiness access to, and use of, external sources of knowledge and expertise. In March 2005 the DTI, recognising theneed for a synthesis of available evidence, conceived and commissioned...

UK business schools have grown rapidly over the last forty years1. Despite a tentativestart, when many commentators (including some vice-chancellors) appeared toquestion the status of management as an academic discipline, business schools havenow come of age. They account for a substantial...

In a fast moving world, one of the biggest challenges facing organisations is dealingwith discontinuous innovation (DI). Most organisations understand that innovation isan organisational imperative. They learn to listen to customers and constantly evolvetheir existing products and services,...

Since the 1960s business schools have prospered in the UK. Now, however, there aresigns that the success story is coming to an end. The future of UK business schoolsis under threat from a number of directions. Their purpose is questioned – they areaccused of focusing on theoretical research at...

Design – the purposive application of creativity to all the activities necessary to bringideas into use either as product (service) or process innovations1 – could and shouldmake and important contribution to the performance of every firm. The designprocess is inextricably linked with...

Every now and then a disruptive event happens, such as the invention of the internet,that changes markets, industries, even societies. Successful well-managed companiesthrive in mature markets by focusing on doing what they do, just a little bit better.Consequently, when a disruptive event, such...