Business Management Education Research Articles

Student Perceptions Of The Nature, Effectiveness, And Value Of The Minnesota Farm Business Management Education Program

The Minnesota Farm Business Management Education Program provides business management education to farmers. Over 100 instructors currently provide instruction that assists 4,000 to 4,350 farmers annually in meeting their financial, family, and personal goals. This evaluation study sought to determine how the contemporary students viewed selected instructional activities, elements, and program outcomes. The results show that individualized instruction and telephone communications were the highest-ranking instructional methods and instructional media, respectively. Instruction relating to the practice of keeping and analyzing records, and making management decisions were highly desired. The effectiveness of the FBM program in delivering selected instructional topics, activities and/or benefits was highly related to the level of importance placed upon each topic, activity, and benefit by the students. The students were very satisfied with the program as evident by the positive nature of their recommendations to potential students and their belief that they receive an annual improvement in net farm income of nearly $5,000.

Learning Styles, Culture and Inclusive Instruction in the Multicultural Classroom: A Business and Management Perspective

This article examines the learning style profile exhibited by students in a multicultural class of international business management, and how cultural conditioning is reflected in the learning style preferences of home and international students. Using the Felder and Soloman's Index of Learning Styles , this study finds that each learning style dimension measured by the instrument is amply represented and that the scores reported by international students on all but one learning style dimension show much wider measures of dispersion compared to those of home students suggesting that greater variations in learning preferences are likely to co-exist in culturally heterogeneous cohorts. Suggestions on how to move toward a multistyle teaching approach to business management education so as to enfranchise all students in the multicultural classroom are then put forward. Finally, a discussion of the implications of these findings with respect to the business management curriculum design is provided.

Policing entertainment districts

Entertainment is now the largest trend in retailing and urban redevelopment, and is credited with revitalizing many downtowns. Consequently, many other cities are attempting to replicate this success by developing pedestrian‐oriented entertainment districts consisting of movie theaters, nightclubs, bars, restaurants, and retail shopping. This paper summarizes the results of 30 police‐manager interviews and a nationwide survey used to identify entertainment‐district features that create problems and demands for police resources, and effective strategies and tactics for policing entertainment districts. The most effective policing is done at the district planning and design stage by engineering out features that cause problems. Good entertainment‐district policing then requires continuous training and education of business managers and private security personnel. Finally, night‐time district patrol requires a multi‐prong effort to pre‐empt problems and assure public safety.

Inclusive approaches to effective communication and active participation in the multicultural classroom

This article reports on the author’s experiences of, and reflections on, theory-based practices with respect to communication and participation in the multicultural classroom in the context of business management education. Key issues concerning the learning experience of international students are identified and examined, and suggestions on the implementation of inclusive approaches to effective communication and active participation in a culturally diverse class of international business management are provided.

Strategiekonzept einer Fachhochschulbibliothek für das kommende JahrZehnt

The university library acts as an interface between the external information market and the university of applied sciences to promote the vocational education of engineers and business managers. Availability of content and highly technical user applications have to be conveyed to the end-user before he can access the global information market. This means a shift in focus on the provision of training and consultation to come up to the challenges of the curriculum. Faced with innovative forms of teaching and learning the university library plays a significant part in the development and provision of learning environments. Corresponding services could only be fulfilled by outsourcing standardised library and technical services and by redefining the organisational concept of the university library

Learning to “think global and act local”: experiences from the small business sector

Examines how entrepreneurs learn from the experience of conducting international business and how they “draw upon” that knowledge when “thinking globally” and enacting international strategies. The findings draw attention to the values, visions and key learning issues that are continually being reproduced as entrepreneurs respond to international opportunities, find partners and build cross‐border networks. International entrepreneuring, it is argued, is about learning from different cross border exchanges and converting that experience into organisational practices that build strategic capability in international markets. Such a perspective also has important implications for the education and training of small business entrepreneurs and managers as they think about and enact their international strategies.

Sustainability Strategies for Industry: The Future of Corporate Practice

Sustainable development and the industrial firm the meaning of sustaining corporate environmentalism, sustainability and management studies towards sustainable production and consumption a dinosaur's durvival kit - tools and strategies for sustainability COSY (Company Oriented sustainability) cultural development strategies and sustainability - a case study of the Body Shop sustainable technology managment - the role of networks of learning backcasting - the example of susstainable washing thirty cabbages - diversity of perspective to catalyze redesing in agrochemical industry sustainable forestry management as a model for sustainable industry - a case study of the Swedish approach sustainable production paradigns for Greenfield Economics knowledge, technology and sustainability implications of sustainability for business reseach and management education.

EH&S preparation-meeting the needs of hiring managers

Sound environmental management systems add value to business by reducing liability and fines for non-compliance. Increasingly, these systems are being used to address sustainable enterprise challenges of the next century. The well-prepared professional environmental manager is critical to advancing the state of environmental protection and leading the organization to create greater stewardship. Carol Singer Neuvelt, Executive Director of the National Association for Environmental Management, describes a business/education survey and subsequent Summit on understanding how business and environmental management education schools view these critical skills.

Some Research Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Education, Enterprise Education and Education for Small Business Management: A Ten-Year Literature Review

GARY GORMAN IS AN ASSOCIATE DEAN AND associate professor and Dennis Hanlon an assistant professor at the Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University ofNewfoundland, Canada, and Wayne King is director of the P. J. Gardiner Institute for Small Business Studies as well as an assistant professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. This paper reviews the literature in the areas of entrepreneurship education, enterprise education and education for small business management. The review covers the period from 1985 to 1994 inclusive and is limited to mainstream journals that focus on entrepreneurship and small business. Theoretical and empirical papers are examined from the perspective of content and market focus. The paper also suggests directions for future research.

A seminar role-play model for hospitality accounting and finance education: development, implementation and evaluation

Alongside areas such as operations, marketing, human resource management and information technology, accounting and financial management is in the forefront of business management education and training. However, the full value of financial knowledge lies in the ability to apply the theory learned in a decision making context. This paper presents the use of a technique known as ‘seminar role-plays’ which retains the intellectual integrity of theoretical study and facilitates the application of knowledge in live scenarios. The content includes an explanation of the development process and method used in the implementation of seminar role-plays together with an evaluation of the technique in the live learning environment.

A TALE OF TWO STUDIES: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ROLE MODELING AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT EDUCATION

Role modeling is among the instructional strategies practiced by outstanding community college faculty across academic disciplines. Teaching methodology is valued as much as subject content. Showing students how to learn for themselves is as important as telling them what is important to learn. Anecdotal references, reflections, and observations presuppose role modeling's significant potential, impact, and influence. Is role modeling an effective instructional strategy in business management education? The purpose of this article is to discuss the effectiveness of role modeling as an instructional strategy in business management education in terms of students’ performance and their instructor's performance. To that end, two studies were conducted. The first study's findings were unexpected, but questionable. The findings of the second study raised a critical question for practitioners: Why would a practical instructor invest scarce resources in role modeling without the prospect of an optimal return? A co...

Business Ethics Education: Should We? Can We?

AbstractEmanating from some of the major business failures of the 1980s has been a growing disquiet at the absence of a concern for ethics in the business community. A possible cause for the apparent immorality of actions taken by some businesses is the absence of ethics from the training programs provided to business managers and professionals. It may be that whilst some practices of the 1980s were those of immoral persons, the wider and underlying problem is one of amoral behaviour. That is, our business system operates without an ethical base, and this occurs, in part, because business ethics is excluded from the curricula of the institutions responsible for the training and further education of business managers and professionals.The successful introduction of business ethics into the curricula requires a sufficient body of academics who believe that the learning of business ethics is both necessary and possible. Research data shows that few Australian universities have a formal program in business ethics. This paper reports an exploratory examination of the attitudes of business academics toward the need for inclusion of ethics in the business curriculum. The response to the survey suggests that while there is, as yet, no centre of concentrated will and ability to set the process of curricula change in motion, there is widespread interest and recognition of the need. Several constraints are identified, including the instrumentalist ethos of our institutions.

Business Ethics Education: Should We? Can We?

AbstractEmanating from some of the major business failures of the 1980s has been a growing disquiet at the absence of a concern for ethics in the business community. A possible cause for the apparent immorality of actions taken by some businesses is the absence of ethics from the training programs provided to business managers and professionals. It may be that whilst some practices of the 1980s were those of immoral persons, the wider and underlying problem is one of amoral behaviour. That is, our business system operates without an ethical base, and this occurs, in part, because business ethics is excluded from the curricula of the institutions responsible for the training and further education of business managers and professionals.The successful introduction of business ethics into the curricula requires a sufficient body of academics who believe that the learning of business ethics is both necessary and possible. Research data shows that few Australian universities have a formal program in business ethics. This paper reports an exploratory examination of the attitudes of business academics toward the need for inclusion of ethics in the business curriculum. The response to the survey suggests that while there is, as yet, no centre of concentrated will and ability to set the process of curricula change in motion, there is widespread interest and recognition of the need. Several constraints are identified, including the instrumentalist ethos of our institutions.

Foreign Influence on the Education of Norwegian Business Managers before World War II

This article examines the foreign influence on the education of Norwegian business managers before 1940. As in other Scandinavian countries, Norwegian educational institutions were strongly inspired by German models. However, the first Norwegian business school was not established until 1936, and this study examines how managers were educated when institutions were weakly developed. It is argued that an efficient use of foreign institutions to train managers more than compensated for the lack of domestic institutions. This system of combining national and foreign educational institutions is related to the debate on the links between educational systems and economic development.

Management Research Themes and Teaching in the Arab World

In the last few decades the Arab states have come to play an important role in the world economy and international politics. We have witnessed an increasing interest in the social, political, and economic aspects of the Arab world. Despite such increasing interest, Arab scholars and business professors have not made significant progress in scholarly contribution and in teaching business management. Seeks to provide an analysis of the situation and suggests research topics in the areas of business and management applicable to development in the Arab world.

Trends in Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship Education in the United States

The critical importance of small business management and entrepreneurship in determining the future of the economic and social well-being of the United States is generally accepted by leading experts in government and business. While there clearly is a boom in entrepreneurial enterprise throughout the nation, the extent of the growth in the educational services supporting this effort is at best only partially known through prior studies, such as those of Vesper (1985). This paper reports the results of three surveys on the development of courses, academic programs, seminars, and workshops in small business management and entrepreneurship in the U.S. The survey results point to a dramatic change in the number of colleges and universities that are now offering small business management and entrepreneurship courses and programs and in the quantity and scope of the courses offered within schools.

The history of business administration and management education in the two Germanies - a comparative approach

(1990). The history of business administration and management education in the two Germanies - a comparative approach. The International Journal of Human Resource Management: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 211-230.

Future priorities in agribusiness education: A US perspective

The agribusiness sector should be renamed the food and agribusiness sector. The importance of consumers in modern society mandates that food institutions on the consumer end of the chain have greater emphasis. The historical emphasis on farm production and first handlers is out of date. Educational needs for careers in the food and agribusiness sector are unique. This is true because of the distinctive characteristics of the sector as developed in this article. Some three undergraduate and three graduate courses of study are now available to students for agribusiness careers. These courses of study need serious consideration in light of the broader redefinition of the sector. This is particularly true with regard to broader use of modern business management education and with regard to the historical preeminence of economic theory in agricultural economics education.

Century 21: A Challenge for Business Management Educators

"Century 21: A Challenge for Business Management Educators." Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 20(4), p. 5

Management Development in Small and Medium‐sized Enterprises in Newfoundland and Labrador

Memorial University of Newfoundland, based in St. John's, is the single university in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Faculty of Business Administration is the largest concentration of resident business educational and management development expertise. In 1980, the Faculty established the Center for Management Development with the role to coordinate its non‐credit, continuing professional business educational and management training and development activities. The mandate of the Center is the development and delivery of continuing entrepreneurship and business management education programmes for the public, and for practising managers in business, government and other organisations in the province — it is to develop management in Newfoundland and Labrador. As part of the Faculty of Business Administration, the Center exists to provide management development offerings where they are most needed, and not solely on the basis of commercial profitability.