The recent financial crisis has prompted many business school leaders to reconsider the course content of their finance programmes. I argue that students would benefit from an understanding of how neoclassical and heterodox economists study the structure and function of financial systems. To...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the service quality dimensions (assurance, responsiveness, empathy, reliability and tangibles) and the overall academic performance service quality. Questionnaires were circulated to 300 students from the school of accounting which...

This paper represents an overview of the Romanian MBA market, with its main players, along with the profiles of MBA students and professors; it presents the MBA culture in Romania, and its impact over the business and academic environment. The history of the MBA programs in Romania is also...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the practices of professors teaching the introductory class in investments. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 101 syllabi of the first investments course taught in various AACSB accredited business schools around the country was...

Purpose – This editorial aims to consider the relationship between academic accounting research and professional practice. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of an editorial review and argument. Findings – The paper acknowledges that accounting academic research is...

Recent studies find that business school students would benefit from a further integration of traditional disciplines with the liberal arts. This paper outlines a suggested approach for accomplishing this in a finance capstone course, and reports the results from student assessments. The...

Global warming and climate change are among the major global concerns. Demands for green management have risen from societal mandates (Marcus, 1980) and fear of shunning, loss of sales, and decline in reputation if management does not have a tangible commitment to green management (Sexton,...

In this paper we provide an alternative explanation for the rise of modern management schools at the turn of the 20th century. We argue that these schools were not just responses of the higher education system to the demand of industrializing companies for a new class of professional managers,...

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...

This article explores managers’ views on various ways in which business schools can contribute to providing solid ethics education to their students, who will ultimately become the next generation of business leaders. One thousand top level managers of Icelandic firms were approached and asked...