Previous research has shown that a large fraction of tenured university faculty in the U.S. and other countries were trained at a small number of highly prestigious universities. The question remains whether this concentration is due to competitive advantages held by candidates from these...

Background/Purpose: In an increasingly competitive educational landscape, the school principal's role has expanded beyond instructional leadership to include strategic marketing responsibilities. Yet the role of marketing in school leadership remains underexplored. Our objective was to...

In a time of increasing polarization, how can we address sensitive topics and ensure that university classrooms remain places of healthy discussions and ethical deliberations? This paper addresses this important question by drawing on unique qualitative data from our students’ accounts of...

Higher education is increasingly focused on developing competencies beyond traditional academic content. Collaborative learning fosters academic achievement and promotes sustainable educational practices, helping students thrive in a dynamic and interconnected world. Professors now play a key...

The purpose of the current research study was to identify appropriate educators for teaching entrepreneurship at the university level and to explore the best teaching methods for developing entrepreneurial knowledge and skills among students. The study aims to address two key questions in...

Purpose - This study aims to explore Dr Judy Olian's leadership journey from business school dean to university president, aiming to distill key lessons for aspiring higher education leaders. Design/methodology/approach - The research employs a multimethod qualitative approach, including a...

This paper aims at exploring the contexts of academic research outputs faced by Lebanese researchers at four major Lebanese business schools. It analyzes both challenges and support mechanisms at these institutions to suggest improvements to the existing framework considering the researchers'...

Sustainability discourse provides directions for sustainable development in the global context; education should be transformed to address sustainability concerns. Many universities have adopted a sustainability focus and university instructors play a vital role in inculcating sustainability...

This research investigates the academic production in business education in the five previous years of the COVID-19 pandemic (2015-2019) and during the first two years of the pandemic (2020 and 2021). The method employed in this study was a systematic review. The research used two databases to...

Commercial education emerged when women's rights were limited and single-gender schools dominated. Inevitably this system created differences in educational attainment and contributed to unequal gender roles in business organizations. This article examines an alternative trajectory in the rise...

Purpose This study aims to introduce management students to climate change by providing them with an opportunity to address it in their own lives, through a class exercise. Design/methodology/approach An in-class exercise was designed, carried out and described in this study. Student teams were...

Die hier skizzierte empirische Untersuchung wurde im Rahmen eines Projektseminars des Lehrstuhls für Unternehmensführung und Organisation an der FWW in der Zeit vom 10.10.2023 bis zum 20.03.2024 von insgesamt 24 Studierenden entwickelt und ausgewertet. Dabei entstanden Projektberichte im...

Purpose - This study aims to examine the potentially important effects of academic embeddedness on college of business student retention and performance as well as the mediating effects of self-efficacy on the academic embeddedness student outcomes relationships. Improvements in student...

This paper examines the posturing, positioning and practice of Business Design (BD) at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, exploring its evolution since the late 1990s to today. It outlines BD's introduction as a design thinking-lite approach to strategy innovation and its...

Intelligence and creativity among school-going students are buzzwords. The exponential growth of studies has spurred on the influence of intelligence on creativity; however, the center of the debate is on the effect of the former on the latter. Surprisingly, very few studies have attempted to...

This paper examines the impact of substituting regular classroom programmes with online classes on students' academic performance. We compared the change in the delivery mechanism of preparatory courses for two consecutive Master of Business Administration (MBA) batches in one of the top...

This important book in the EFMD series shines a light on women (and sometimes the absence of them) within business schools, as well as their contributions and impact across multiple spheres within and beyond their schools. Despite the clear rationale for promoting sustainable gender equity, the...