Business Schools And Innovation: Receptive Contexts For Change?

Abstract

In the United Kingdom, the experience of the past ten years, especially with regard to constraints upon government funding, has demonstrated that the future success of the higher education institutions in which we all work, will be crucially bound up with their ability to innovate in response to changes in the environment. If this is generally true of our academic institutions as a whole, it is particularly true of business schools, where pressures to respond to change are especially strongly felt. In the United Kingdom, the rapid rise, and subsequent flattening out, of demand for MBA programmes; and the increasing demands of undergraduate students of business and management studies for more flexible course choice, more ‘internationalism’, and greater scope to study languages, are cases in point.