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From tools to theories: The emergence of modern financial economics
Koehn, Julia - 2011
It is shown that early research in modern financial economics had substantially been driven by the application of the research strategy of economics and the use of newly developed mathematical methods. For this purpose the professionalization of business education as a consequence of changes in...
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The research output of business schools and business scholars in Ireland
Tol, Richard S. J. - 2010
The research performance of business scholars on the island of Ireland is evaluated based on their number of publication, number of citations, h-index and the same divided by the numbers of years since the first publication. Data were taken from Scopus. There is a large variation in both...
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The Value & Purpose of Management Education: Looking Back and Thinking Forward in Global Focus
Thomas, Howard (contributor); Cornuel, Eric (contributor);  … - 2022
"Without a doubt, business schools have been a success story in higher education over the last 50 years (the period of EFMD's existence). Even so, they have come under scrutiny, and attack, over their academic legitimacy and value proposition for business and society. In this book, drawn from a...
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Perspectives on the Impact, Mission and Purpose of the Business School
Cornuel, Eric (contributor); Thomas, Howard (contributor);  … - 2023
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...
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“An A is an A?” Maybe in North America, but less so elsewhere
Hiebl, Martin R. W. - In: European Management Review 20 (2023) 2, pp. 161-169
With reference to recent debate about the increasing “an A is an A” mentality at business schools, I provide evidence on the prevalence of this mentality in North America versus other regions of the world (RoW). The evidence presented is derived from the data selection procedures employed in...
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Business School Research: Excellence, Academic Quality and Positive Impact
Cornuel, Eric (contributor); Thomas, Howard (contributor);  … - 2024
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...
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Business schools in crisis
Phillips, Fred; Hsieh, C. H.; Ingene, C.; Golden, Lonnie - In: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and … 2 (2016) 10, pp. 1-21
Economic, political, and demographic changes, technological advances, two crashes of the economy, ethical scandals, and other developments in the business environment have strained the roles and enrollments of American universities' business schools. The b-schools have not responded adequately....
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Policy diffusion, domestic politics and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012
Granvik, Maria - 2016
Lesotho is a small Southern African country that has introduced two national cash transfer programmes, the Old Age … Pension and the Child Grant Programme. Although Lesotho has followed what has been called the 'Southern African model', the … Programme was initially driven by international organizations, but the dynamics were not Southern African, and the Lesotho …
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The Income Elasticity of Child Labour: Do Cash Transfers Have an Impact on the Poorest Children?
Pellerano, Luca; Porreca, Eleonora; Rosati, Furio C. - 2018
cash transfer, in Lesotho. We show that the poorest households do not increase investment in children's human capital …
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Income elasticity of child labor: Do cash transfers have an impact on the poorest children?
Pellerano, Luca; Porreca, Eleonora; Rosati, Furio Camillo - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-21
cash transfer (CT), in Lesotho. We show that the poorest households do not increase investment in children's human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552487