1st Edition

Perspectives on the Impact, Mission and Purpose of the Business School

Edited By Eric Cornuel, Howard Thomas, Matthew Wood Copyright 2023
84 Pages 59 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

With contributions from some of the leading thinkers in business school education, this book explores the impact and purpose of the business school, and addresses some of the most important questions facing management education today. The diverse perspectives brought together by the EFMD in this volume examine a number of common questions, themes and challenges. These include: whether business... Read more

1. Perspectives on the Impact, Mission and Purpose of the Business School

Howard Thomas

2. Positive Impact: An Important Role for Business School Leadership in a Changing, Precarious World

Eric Cornuel

3. Business Schools should be Schools of Management: An Evolutionary Perspective

Kai Peters and Howard Thomas

4. The Search for Meaning: BSIS and its Role in Promoting Business Schools’ Societal Impact

Michel Kalika and Eric Cornuel

5. What Topics Should Business School Research Focus On? Insights from 123 Award-winning Responsible Research Projects

Anne Tsui, Mary Jo Bitner and Serguei Nettesine

6. How Management Academics Have Locked Themselves in an Iron Cage

Gerry Johnson and Kenneth Starkey

7. Open up the Business School! From Rigour and Relevance to Purpose, Responsibility and Quality

Alan Irwin

8. Building Back Better: Purpose-Driven Business Schools

Martin Kitchener and Rachel Ashworth

9. Gross National Wellbeing: The Future of Work

Cary Cooper

10. Co-Creating Relevant Knowledge through Regional Virtual Collaboration: The Latin America Scholars Community Case

Gabriela Alvarado Cabrera

11. The Competition Fetish in Business Schools: Challenges and Responses

Rajani Naidoo and Jürgen Enders

12. Contextualising Change with Social Network Analysis

Kenneth Qua and Barbara Sporn

13. Singapore Management University (SMU): Tracking the Strategy Evolution of a Start-up University

Michelle Lee, Howard Thomas and Alex Wilson

14. Striving for Meaningful Impact in and through Management Education: The IMD Perspective

Jean-François Manzoni

Biography

Eric Cornuel is President at EFMD Global.

Howard Thomas was the inaugural Ahmass Fakahany Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership at the Questrom School, Boston University. He is also an Emeritus Professor and former Dean at Singapore Management University and a Senior Advisor at EFMD.

Matthew Wood is Director, Operations and Global Focus Magazine Editor at EFMD Global.