Abstract
Are the MBA programs really designed to foster entrepreneurial minds? Answering this question is the main objective of our work. After a literature review we identified several programs’ characteristics that promote entrepreneurship. Using a sample of 99 executive or part-time MBA programs, we found that the diversity in this sector is high. Not all the programs have been designed to foster entrepreneurship behavior; moreover, most of them do not even have an entrepreneurship subject in their curriculum. Nevertheless, other dimensions that favor this type of behavior, like internationality, are widespread in the European MBA market.
Highlights
The demand for European MBAs is constantly increasing (Elliott and Soo 2013)
The presence of some of these entrepreneurial features in several Spanish universities has been analyzed (Fernández-Nogueira et al 2018; Sánchez-García et al 2013), there is a lack of empirical studies that analyze the presence of these factors in the European MBA programs, so this study is relevant because it analyzes the presence or not of these features in a sample of 99 executive
The research focus was on part-time non-specialized MBA (PT MBA) programs, which represent a subset of MBAs within the bandwidth of MBA programs
Summary
The demand for European MBAs is constantly increasing (Elliott and Soo 2013). This situation may be attributed to the ongoing “globalization” of business, which is creating a growing need for multidisciplinary and internationally-educated managers (Jain and Stopford 2011). To this end, universities, business schools, and MBA programs must become more entrepreneurial. The presence of some of these entrepreneurial features in several Spanish universities has been analyzed (Fernández-Nogueira et al 2018; Sánchez-García et al 2013), there is a lack of empirical studies that analyze the presence of these factors in the European MBA programs, so this study is relevant because it analyzes the presence or not of these features in a sample of 99 executive. This study allows us to know the entrepreneurial level of the European business schools and universities, and to analyze what are the main areas of improvement in order to foster entrepreneurial thinking among the students (Hernández-Sánchez et al 2019).
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