To meet complex global challenges, executives face key challenges to set effective strategic visions. Too often the long‐term plan itself becomes a lengthy process, thus delaying reaching tangible results. Executives can get bogged down co‐ordinating a plan for many diverse parts and...

This paper argues that business and management schools continue to operate a gender blind approach (or at best gender neutral) to management education, management research and the development of management theory. This echoes a pattern repeated in the practice of management, which closes down...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore, within the context of developing Sino‐UK educational relationships, the evolution of a specific partnership, that between Tianjin Business School, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin, and Salford Business School, University of Salford,...

This paper was stimulated by the chilling vision of the corporate university described by Moore and touted by numerous others. It exposes the ways in which Newman’s The Idea of a University will be abrogated and transformed by corporate universities. Fundamental issues are raised about the...

Purpose – This study seeks to examine differences in the perceptions of sexual harassment between business school students in the USA and Thailand. Design/methodology/approach – Senior‐level business students from both the USA (228 students) and Thailand (260 students) were surveyed...

Defines ethics and examines the controversy surrounding teaching ethics in business schools. Traces the link between personal values and business schools, and discusses strategies for developing and maintaining ethical businesses.

Examines the hypothesis that powerful forces created by the structure of executive education and its participants are driving the industry and participant behaviours. Presents a systemic model to illustrate the forces shaping behaviours and outcomes.

Purpose – MBA education in India is facing the same challenges as business. Upheaval of technology, changing customer expectations, global competition, online courses and societal responsibility are the major concerns. Failure to adapt to these challenges will question the academic...