Research on management education concerns developing and delivering knowledge on management, the role of its stakeholders and its value in society. Its purpose is to develop effective managers and leaders and bridge the traditional divide between education and development. For the development to be effective it needs to be relevant. How do we make management education for development that is relevant? These selected papers (in no particular order) highlight some of the research published in JMD on this topic. These are long running debates and signals to the field’s openness and robustness. They become more pertinent in the era of global classroom. Does it transcend cultures? We need to know more about different global traditions. What are the implications of AI? At JMD we would like to invite submissions that contribute to this quest for relevance. The following papers are free to access for 1 month until 20th June.
- From relevance to relevate: How university-based business school can remain seats of “higher” learning and still contribute effectively to business by Robert Chia
- The unfulfilled promise of management education (ME): the role, value and purposes of ME by Howard Thomas, Lynne Thomas, and Alex Wilson
- Future scenarios for management education by Howard Thomas, Michelle Lee, and Alexander Wilson
- The business school model: a flawed organizational design? by J.C. Spender
- GBSN’s perspective on business education and globalization by Guy Pfeffermann
- Preparing managers for a reconfigured world: management education's new gig by Nathan S. Hartman and Joy H. Karriker
- Moving beyond the rhetoric of responsible management education by Eric Cornuel and Ulrich Hommel
- To shift a paradigm or not: worldviews at play in responsible management education literature by Talia Stough, Kim Ceulemans, Marc Craps, Luc Van Liedekerke, and Valérie Cappuyns
- Rethinking solutions for re-balancing the education–job mismatch by Jessica Lichy and Tatiana Khvatova
JMD has previously run special issues on this topic, which you can read below. If you are interested in proposing an SI on management education, please reach out to the journal’s Commissioning Editor, Emma Ferguson ([email protected])