Purpose – This paper aims to highlight for the first time, creativity's vital role in a new approach in the higher education world which can improve the current university instructional strategies post financial crisis. Design/methodology/approach – The paper offers a theoretical framework...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the development of understanding of the social processes involved in business engagement and understanding of the role of knowledge transfer practitioners. It is also to provide the first outlines of a theoretical framework of business...

Often associated with early stages of individual and organizational change is exploration of basic premisses or assumptions held by individuals. Management faculty could benefit from an increased awareness of epistemological and values assumptions that they and others are applying in their...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the meaning of responsibility and how it might be integrated into the business school and university curriculum. Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyses responsibility in terms of interactive modes, involving imputability (critical...

Purpose – This paper aims to consider the range of technologies currently affecting the business school world, and to draw out some of the implications and ramifications that we should bear in mind. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on insights from other analyses of technology...

Purpose – This paper aims to recommend dynamic capabilities as an integrative framework for the business school curriculum. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses the history, sources, and consequences of the disciplinary fragmentation of most curricula. There is a determined...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of social and digital media in the business school and particularly to examine how such innovative technological processes can be leveraged to enhance teaching instruction and enrich learning about practice and research....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a “change” stance towards the current situation of business education. Drawing on a theoretically embedded model, the authors hold a critical stance towards understandings of stability in the business education industry. In this respect, a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight how an innovative design might look for a business school of the future. Design/methodology/approach – This is a think‐piece, but draws heavily on the real‐life experience of the Lorange Institute of Business Zurich. Findings – A...

Purpose – Recent decades have seen a change in the environment of business schools. These changes place great responsibility on deans as the leaders of schools to act. To date, there has been a dearth of literature dealing specifically with visionary responses on the part of the deans of...