Vol. 1. – Annual Research 2022
Perspectives on the impact, mission and purpose of the business school
The business school has been an important success story in the evolution of the modern university. Yet it is increasingly valued in that context “much more for its managerial expertise, cash generation ability and financial strength than its intellectual vigour and scholarship. Indeed … its legitimacy as a serious academic discipline is critically questioned by scholars in science, arts and the humanities”
Read MorePositive impact: An important role for business school leadership in a changing, precarious world
Business schools should have a purposeful mission to create value and positive, meaningful societal impacts for their ecosystem partners.
Read MoreBusiness schools should be schools of management: An evolutionary perspective
What is management actually all about and why do practising managers need “schools of management” rather than “business schools”?
Read MoreThe search for meaning: BSIS and its role in promoting business schools’ societal impact
BSIS is not only a tool for measuring impact but also a way to generate value based on the research carried out by faculty for business school stakeholders, that is to say, companies, governments, and society.
Read MoreWhat topics should business school research focus on?
Without a substantial infusion of science-based new knowledge, business school curricula and business education will continue to fail in meeting the needs of the changed and changing world.
Read MoreHow management academics have locked themselves in an iron cage
The most serious aspect of the current research and publication system is that it has become mostly self-serving and self-sustaining rather than responding adequately to the needs of external stakeholders – management, government and society.
Read MoreOpen up the business school! From rigour and relevance to purpose, responsibility and quality
Purpose. Responsibility. Quality. Each of these raises further questions: about how they can be developed into business school-wide deliberations and conversations.
Read MoreBuilding back better: Purpose-driven business schools
As business schools display inertia while corporations change to pursue purpose, a rift is emerging between the interests of participants in the business school industry.
Read MoreGross national wellbeing: The future of work
The real challenge for senior management in the private and public sectors will be to create wellbeing cultures which retain and support their staff during these difficult times.
Read MoreCo-creating relevant knowledge through regional virtual collaboration: The Latin America Scholars Community case
As business has become increasingly global in nature during the 21st century, business schools’ international collaborations have gained more importance since schools look for greater relevance and a bigger positive impact on society.
Read MoreThe competition fetish in business schools: Challenges and responses
Business schools appear to be trapped in a modern-day magical belief that competition will provide the solution to all problems. Competition is expected to enhance quality in research and teaching and lead to real-world impact.
Read MoreContextualising change with social network analysis
Social network analysis (SNA) has shed light on underlying forces that affect consensus building, community decision-making, belief systems and the diffusion and adoption of innovations.
Read MoreSingapore Management University (SMU): Tracking the strategy evolution of a start-up university
Singapore Management University (SMU) exists in an ecosystem for higher education that is quite unlike what one might find in other parts of the world.
Read MoreStriving for meaningful impact in and through management education: The IMD perspective
IMD’s Jean-Francois Manzoni explains why he profoundly believes in IMD’s distinctive purpose and modus operandi and in the impact they have on the world.
Read More