Business Education System Research Articles

Research on the Integration of the new generation of information technology into the curriculum system of business education

With the development of the new generation of information technology, fintech, big data, block chain, cloud computing and other new information technology, as well as the emergence of new retail, new finance, intelligent manufacturing, digital management and other new formats. They pose new challenges to business education. Talent is the first resource. How to cultivate talents with new business technology and professional skills to adapt to the development of new business is an important issue in front of every business education institution, especially in the aspect of curriculum system. This paper discusses the research status, content, significance and thinking of the integration of the new generation of information technology into the curriculum system of business education, aiming to provide theoretical reference for the cultivation of composite applied business talents.

BUSINESS EDUCATION IN UKRAINE IN THE CONDITIONS OF GLOBALIZATION

The article identifies the main shortcomings and fundamental foundations of the development of business education in Ukraine in the context of globalization and suggests ways to modernize this education, taking into account the advanced world experience. In the concept of long-term socio-economic development of any country, it is important that the transition to an innovative, socially-oriented type of development is impossible without the formation of an appropriate institutional environment. One of the reasons for the low level of innovation activity at the present stage can be called by the fact that the previously carried out reforms, which radically changed the economic conditions of management in our country, almost did not touch the foundations of the old institutional model. At the same time, the institutional environment of the innovative economy is characterized by a developed competitive environment; favorable conditions for the massive emergence of new companies, including innovative sectors of the economy; the effectiveness of public administration and local self-government that meet the modern needs of socio-economic development. Education is undoubtedly one of the most important directions in the formation of an innovation-oriented institutional environment, both in the long and medium term. The creation of a business education system contains mechanisms for adapting this most important type of educational service to the constantly changing market requirements. At the same time, business education is a subject to globalization both as a part of the educational services market and as a basis for the further development of transnational business and global capital. Of course, both vocational education in general and business education as an integral part of it are the most important factors of economic growth and socio-economic development at the present stage of transition to an innovative type of economy. At the moment, business education must be considered as one of the key elements of the innovation infrastructure. The sphere of business education, in turn, is also an object of organizational innovations, focused primarily on the formation of a business education system, increasing the efficiency of interaction between subjects of the business education market at the international, national and regional levels.

Gender Nonconforming Individuals and Business Education: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Our understanding of gender is evolving from a binary system to a continuum whereby gender is fluid, multifaceted, and individually defined or expressed. Businesses, through owners, employees, and customers, as well as company policies and practices, play a role in the acceptance and inclusion of gender nonconforming individuals. One group with a responsibility in relation to gender inclusion is the business education system—undergraduate and graduate business programs that deliver business curriculum, shape business practices, research business issues, and produce business leaders. The purpose of this study is to examine the peer-reviewed literature to identify if and how the interpretation of genders, one that includes gender nonconforming individuals, exists in business education research. While 17 articles were found that cover topics within this general area, an overall lack of academic literature examining business education and gender nonconformity may leave business educators ill-equipped to include gender nonconforming individuals and topics in their classrooms. This work may inform business educators regarding the status of business education in relation to the evolving understanding of gender and identify areas for future work to help ensure that business educators are equipped with the knowledge to enable full gender inclusion in the business classroom.

ACTIVATION OF THE PROCESSES OF BUSINESS AND EDUCATION INTEGRATION

The author analyzes the main aspects of rapprochement of academic studies and professional activities. The paper defines the main forms of cooperation used in order to improve the level of professional training of graduates, reduce the time for production adaptation, and to introduce them into educational institutions. The article accumulates the experience of foreign countries that have effective forms of practical interaction of the university with enterprises for solving the problems of integration between education and business. The author considers state-private partner-ship as one of the effective directions in the system of business education and analyzes its components and the main approaches to the organization.

Online Information Search Behavior of Business School Aspirants

In last two decades there are several forces that have impacted business education system. It prompts the business schools across the globe to have market oriented approach either to survive or to excel. In this changing scenario the students' roles in the system bear similarity to that of consumers in traditional business context. Accordingly, the researchers and practitioners have adapted the various marketing constructs – consumer behavior, service quality etc- to study the problems and prospects of this industry. The present study is an all round attempt to arrest the prospective business school students' information search behavior which precedes actual decision making stage. Factor analysis reveals that seven factors- intellectual resource, state of Infrastructure, scope of placement, accreditation and collaboration, ranking status, cost of the program, and admission procedure- are usually searched online by the aspirants at pre-admission stage.

HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN: PROBLEMS AND IMPROVEMENT METHODS

The paper investigated the current state of higher (business) education in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The research methodology is based on the processing of secondary data, which allows a preliminary analysis of the problems of the education system. The authors give an estimate of the current system of business education in Kazakhstan. The authors conclude that the education system of Kazakhstan is currently under development, competitiveness of the economy largely depends on the quality of education and further growth is impossible without well-educated and trained personnel.

Developing Effective Educational Strategies in Kazakhstan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current state of business education market in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The research methodology is based on the processing of secondary data that makes it possible to conduct a preliminary analysis of the problems. The author gives an assessment of the current business education system. The conducted study led to the conclusion that contemporary business education in the Republic of Kazakhstan provides rather quality education from an academic point of view, though faces certain problems when focusing on business needs. The author reveals the existing problems and deficiencies of the business education system in the country, as well as identifies key trends and growth options of bachelor and master degree courses, as well as short-term courses in business education system in the Republic of Kazakhstan. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s1p54

Expectations of Social Mobility in Different Types of MBA Students

The empirical basis of the study is a 2010 survey among MBA students of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Managers and entrepreneurs studying in the business school impose different requirements to content of educational programs and to organization of teaching process, depending on what changes they expect after graduating with MBA degrees. Based on these expectations, MBA students may be classified into three categories: stable, horizontally mobile, and vertically mobile. The stable type (40%) believes that business education will give them more self-confidence and help them secure their social status and current position in the company. Horizontally mobile students (34%) expect to change their job or field of activity after graduating from the business school. Vertically-mobile students (26%) envisage a career progress, a pay rise, an improvement of social status, or getting a job in a top corporation or in an international company. The conclusion is, usiness education can perform different functions for different categories of students, so maximum efficiency of MBA programs may be achieved through student segmentation and educational program differentiation (more detailed elaboration of educational content to adjust it to students’ emands; diversification of the set of subjects, etc.). Modern Russian business schools are rather unwilling to initiate research to study demands of both prospective students (including their status specifics, expectations, needs, and motivation for MBA studies) and employers (e. g. their equirements to successful candidates for specific positions), which blunts effectiveness of the business education system significantly.

THE CONCEPT OF INTEGRATED ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS (EB) EDUCATION SYSTEM

In our approach to engineering and business education system an engineer is a man working as creator and user of technical products. We stress that the process of understanding and gaining knowledge of technical reality and creativity of engineers are the essential for EB concept . Next, we describe briefly three perspectives for building the system of innovative product origination as a basis for EB system: 1) designer’s perspective; 2) business perspective. 3) consumer perspective.

Business Education in Pakistan: Growth, Problems and Prospects.

In present age of knowledge economy, professional education has gained unique importance. The post World War II developments in shape of unprecedented growth of trade and industry have caused proliferation of business education throughout world beside progress in other areas like engineering and medicine. Resultantly, business education achieved great value. The importance of business education has been further increased in developing economy like Pakistan, which has still long way to reach the status of developed economy. An overview of the growth of the business education in Pakistan has been presented in this study through highlighting its problems and future prospect. For this purpose, a non-systematic narrative review was carried out in such way that a thorough review of the existing literature on business education in Pakistan was done. It has been found that the roots of existing business education system in Pakistan lies in the educational system introduced by British in past. The present system of business education in Pakistan has gradually grown in past sixty four years, in such way that it has experienced a paradigm shift in 21 st century, when the Government of Pakistan invested huge amount in education sector for development of country through knowledge and technology. It is still facing different inherited problems which are either from the institution or government side. There is a need of a more dynamic approach for full development the business education system in country through joint collaboration between society, business education institutions and government. Once such system will be developed then the requirements of business sector will be successfully fulfilled and country will get a strong base in commerce, trade and industry, which will ultimately develop the country as whole.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF THE CURRICULUM OF LEADING US BUSINESS SCHOOLS

The importance of considering the US business schools experience when building and improving the native system of business education is substantiated Goals and objectives of business education are clarified. Comparative analysis of the leading US business schools curriculum structure and content is presented in the paper. On the basis of the research conducted, recommendations on Ukrainian business education improvement are suggested.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities for the Market Economy: An Investigation of Student Perceptions Before and After China's WTO Entry

This exploratory study conducted in the People's Republic of China sought to determine the managerial knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that are perceived as important for the Chinese market economy. Questionnaire responses were collected from 145 business students in 2001 (before China's WTO entry) and 141 business students in 2006 (after China's WTO entry). The identified set of eight managerial knowledge, skills, and abilities included: business area knowledge and skills, communication skills, creativity/adaptability, ethics, leadership, problem solving, teamwork, and work habits. For each time period examined, the mean score for “importance” of each KSA was significantly higher than the mean score for “presence.” The differences between the importance mean and the presence mean for each KSA was denoted as a “gap.” This study revealed that five of the eight KSAs had a significantly smaller gap in 2006 than in 2001. This suggests that the business education system in China is enabling the development of more effective managers for the Chinese market economy.

Business Education in Changing Scenario

Very rarely one can find a business education faculty up to the mark. The statement does not imply non-availability of good faculties; but the available resources are very less to their commensurate requirement. Since the ‘Business Education’ has been transformed in a “dream-selling profitable business”, the proprietors of such business organizations are always effortful to maximize their profit. They avoid appointing full-time faculties. Barring a few, BEIs are not adopting any mechanism to evaluate the performances. Dynamic courses offering institutions are very few. Most of the business education institutions offer traditional courses i.e. marketing management, financial management, corporate accounting, etc. In many cases, BEIs themselves are very much reluctant in making efforts for good liaison with industries and business world in the wake of practical exposure. Placement is a crucial component of management education. The Universities do not give any consideration to placements. The AICTE recognized institutes, barring a few, toe the university line. Most of the AICTE recognized institutes are not able to offer jobs to all their students. Looking to the prevailing poor condition of the business education system, an altogether new business education system is required to be evolved. This paper is an effort in such evolution.

Marketing Academics in Austria, Germany and Switzerland: Humboldt's Ideals Give Way to Performance Pressure

In many countries, the system of business education at universities and colleges has been an important topic of public scrutiny and discussion. Universities in German speaking countries and regions are no exception. Critical statements range from a lack of practical relevance in teaching and research to the need to increase research output. This paper aims to investigate how marketing faculty deal with such pressures. Based on a census of all German speaking marketing professors at German, Swiss, and Austrian universities and polytechnics, the analysis probes the status-quo and satisfaction with the current work environment. The paper concludes with suggestions for improving the working conditions of German speaking marketing academics and identifies some promising future research avenues.

Educating the “Whole” Manager: A Student‐centred Model of Business Education

A new student‐centred system of business education is described. Looking at the omissions of past programmes of learning, business schools are urged to concentrate on the concept of the “whole” manager.

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Academy of Management JournalVol. 13, No. 2 ArticlesNews About PersonsPublished Online:30 Nov 2017https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.1970.4297587AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsDownload CitationsAdd to favoritesTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail View articleAbstractThe article reports on the appointment of Dr. Benjamin Litt to the position of Associate Professor at Lehigh University and the publishing of the book “The Business Education System - An Interdisciplinary Overview,” by Dr. Narendra K. Sethi.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 13, No. 2 Permissions Metrics in the past 12 months History Published online 30 November 2017 Published in print 1 June 1970 Information© Academy of Management JournalKeywordsBUSINESS teachersDownload PDF