Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the contours of the emerging business education and institutions in a multi-polar world and to identify the causes of the strategic convergence of management education, to explore the limitations of the dominant models of management education...

The paper addresses the issue of management education and research in a multi-polar world. Empirical studies of BSchools in six regions suggest that accreditations and rankings have led to strategic convergence, as most players mimic leading American BSchools. This appears as a paradox as a...

Business schools are increasingly faced with external pressures to demonstrate their impact on society. Reducing public budgets, the pervasive effects of business school rankings, and a correspondence between the rise and rise of business schools in higher education and increased scepticism...

The french academic institutions seem to stay away from the digital revolution. As the digital revolution goes on, it seems that business schools and universities have difficulties integrating these tools in their programs. The main reasons for this situation are strategic misunderstanding,...

What is the impact of voluntary corporate environmental disclosures on the cost of equity? The present study will attempt to answer this question. The empirical research is based on companies listed in the French SBF 120 stock market index. In 2006, most of these companies devoted a section of...

This article examines the structure of coopetition and its significance in R&D agreements. An original approach is proposed and used to account for coopetitive behaviours in six R&D consortia subsidized by the European Commission. The findings of this exploratory research show that in collective...