The Future of Management Education ─ Differentiation Strategies for Business Schools

This book discusses the challenges facing business schools and management education systems around the world. Based on documented descriptions of institutional and competitive dynamics in the ‘industry’ of management education, the authors show how management education is going through major changes such as new governance and business models, mergers and acquisitions, internationalisation of faculty and students coexisting with entrenchment in local markets, ever more needs for financial resources, development of distant and blended learning, and increasing pressure for research output to boost rankings. With concerns surrounding the sustainability of current trends in faculty salary inflation, social acceptability of higher fees, cost of distance learning and the risk of an academic-industry divide around knowledge produced by management research, The Future of Management Education develops an analysis of business models and discusses strategic implications for stakeholders. The second volume extends the discussion to a total of 23 countries to bring a genuinely global perspective and move away from the Euro-centric outlook. The countries covered in the second volume include China, Brazil, Russia, Singapore and France.

Stephanie Dameron is Professor of Strategic Management at Paris Dauphine University, France, where she runs the Chair “Strategy and Competitive Intelligence”. A Board Member of Paris Dauphine University and a member of the Supervisory Board of ESSEC business School, Stephanie is former chair of the French Academy of Management (2012-2014) and was Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management (2011-2015) and the European Management Review in 2014. She was elected as Program chair of the Strategic Management Society’s Strategy Practice Interest Group in 2014.

Thomas Durand is Chaired Professor of Strategic Management at Cnam Paris. A Fellow of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), former president of both the International Association of Strategic Management (AIMS) and the French Academy of Management. He has published extensively in business strategy and innovation management. Thomas was at Centrale Paris for 30 years and taught at HEC, INSEAD, Dauphine, the Stockholm School of Economics or Chalmers.