1st Edition
Business School Research Excellence, Academic Quality and Positive Impact
This second book in the EFMD Management Education series explores business schools’ increasing focus on, and search for, meaningful societal and economic research impact. This involves, in particular, co-operation and collaboration in both knowledge creation and implementation of the findings of academic research in practice.
Business schools have a critical role to play in ‘rewiring’ our missions for research relevance, impact and reach, and in recognising needs and addressing real issues of society and economy. With cases from a range of international business schools, the book doesn’t simply highlight the need for the dominant research model in business schools to evolve, but illustrates how this can happen in practice. In so doing, it opens the discussion on how the business school can contribute in very real ways to solving global and complex challenges such as climate change, rising inequalities, international isolationism, eroding democratic systems, and the spread of fake news.
These are goals that the EFMD has championed since its inception, and this book will be of value and interest to policy makers and business leaders seeking insight into how management education will be shaped to support business and wider society, as well as those working in business schools and higher education leaders.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Part 1: Introduction
1. Introducing Business School Research and Positive Impact
Howard Thomas
Part 2: Papers on Positive and Societal Impact from an EFMD Perspective
2. EFMD and Societal Impact
Eric Cornuel and Howard Thomas
3. The Evolution of EFMD's Excellence in Practice Awards: A 15-year Journey of Supporting Impactful Growth
Jan Ginneberge
Part 3: Concepts of the Purposeful Business School
4. Management Research with Purpose
Roy Suddaby
5. Impact-Driven Research: The Case of Hult
Johan Roos
6. Research Impact at an Unusual Academic Institution: IMD’s Journey
Anand Narasimhan
7. Research and Positive Impact: Henley Business School in the African Context
Jonathan Foster-Pedley and Cara Bouwer
Part 4: Research Ecosystems, Partnerships and Collective Know-How
8. Developing a Responsible Research Strategy at Saïd Business School
Soumitra Dutta
9. Managing to Make Impactful Business and Management Researchers in the Anthropocene
Katy Mason
10. Responsible, Rigorous, and Impactful Research Through Engagement
Linda Barrington and Andrew Karolyi
Part 5: Complex Societal Impact Projects Requiring Tri-Sector Collaboration and Cooperation
11. The Role of Business Schools in Creating National Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Case of Egypt and the AUC School of Business
Sherif Kamel
12. Making Wales an Anti-racist Nation: A ‘Public Value Mission’ in Action
Emmanuel Ogbonna
13. Leaving the Theory Cave: Forays into Innovation Policy and Practice in Wales
Rick Delbridge
14. Empowering Vulnerable Populations Through Transformative Approaches and Research
Luciano Barin-Cruz, Nadia Ponce Morales, Kate Picone and Laurence Beaugrand-Champagne
15. The Female Leader: Experiences from the Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa
Morris Mthombeni
Biography
Eric Cornuel has been President of EFMD Global since 2000. He is an acknowledged leader, expert and authority on management education and a recipient of the Légion d’honneur & Magnolia Award from the city of Shanghai for services to education. He is a Professor at the University of Louvain, Belgium and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Kozminski University, Poland.
Howard Thomas is a ‘serial dean’ having held deanships in Asia, Europe and North America. He is a well-regarded and highly cited scholar in the fields of strategic management and management education. He is an Emeritus Professor and former Dean at LKCSB, Singapore Management University, and currently a Special Advisor at EFMD Global.
Matthew Wood is Director, Operations and Global Focus Magazine Editor at EFMD Global.
