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The Role of Business Schools and Their Challenges in Educating Future Leaders: Looking Back to Move Forward

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In this chapter, we discuss the most debated challenges for Business Schools and management education. If Business Schools want to develop responsible future leaders, they need to rethink their role. Through a structured content analysis of the past 3-years academic research on the role of Business Schools, we describe five major challenges and approaches to them. The first one is innovation (in terms of what and how to teach, and governance). The second one is relevance for practices (in terms of employability and impactful teaching and research). The third one is academic reputation (in terms of accreditation pressure and accessibility). The fourth one is promotion of intercultural differences, while the last one is interdisciplinarity (in terms of contaminating different disciplines).

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Notes

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    This is the list of the journals we considered: Academy of Management Learning and Education, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management (USA), Human Resource Management Journal (UK), Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Work, Employment and Society, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Annals, British Journal of Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Human Relations, Leadership Quarterly, Organization Studies, Organizational Research Methods. We added to this list the following journals with a rating of 3 because they belonged to the field of Management Development and Education: British Educational Research Journal, Management Learning, Studies in Higher Education.

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Caporarello, L., Manzoni, B. (2020). The Role of Business Schools and Their Challenges in Educating Future Leaders: Looking Back to Move Forward. In: Pfeffermann, N. (eds) New Leadership in Strategy and Communication. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19681-3_15

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