La montée en puissance des accréditations non étatiques

Nioche, Jean-Pierre

doi:10.3166/rfg.178-179.219-232

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“…The internationalisation of the competition coincided with the emergence of international accreditation, such as the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) or the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) (Cret, 2007;Nioche, 2007). EQUIS is specialised in the accreditation of higher education institutions of management and business administration.…”

Section: The 80s: Development Of the Fieldwidening Of The Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

From ‘Ecoles Supérieures de Commerce’ to ‘Management Schools’: transformations and continuity in French business schools

Blanchard

2009

Euro J of Education

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Part of the national system of grandes écoles, French Business schools have known radical changes since the 1980s, notably in size, and have become more attractive to students both at a national and an international level. As a consequence, the French elitist system has been questioned by the competition of foreign –especially Anglo‐Saxon — models. An organisational/institutional analysis of these transformations is presented here. Considering that French business schools have been progressively building an organisational field since the end of the 19th century, we will analyse how this field has seen a process of de‐structuration and re‐structuration since the late 1980s. The article first introduces some specificities of the French higher education system. The historical construction of the national business schools field is then presented, before analysing the increasing competition between schools and its effects over the last decades.

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Section: The 80s: Development Of the Fieldwidening Of The Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

From ‘Ecoles Supérieures de Commerce’ to ‘Management Schools’: transformations and continuity in French business schools

Blanchard

2009

Euro J of Education

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“…During the 1990s, the AACSB ran a pilot scheme for accrediting non-US business schools to determine how the standards, based on the US business school education model, could be modified to take into account the wide diversity of management education systems around the world (Flesher, 2007). ESSEC, one of the top French "Grandes Ecoles de Management" (GEM), based near Paris, was the first school outside North America to achieve AACSB accreditation in 1997 (Nioche, 2007). This was a clear sign to other GEMs that this accreditation was within their reach.…”

Section: International Accreditation: a French Case Studymentioning

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International Accreditations as Drivers of Business School Quality Improvement

Bryant

2013

Journal of Teaching in International Business

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Business schools are under pressure to implement continuous improvement and quality assurance processes to remain competitive in a globalized higher education market. Drivers for quality improvement include external, environmental pressures, regulatory bodies such as governments, and, increasingly, voluntary accreditation agencies such as AACSB and EFMD. A case study based on French management schools is presented to demonstrate this impact, and globally, management education is shown to have benefited from specific accreditation standards. Future challenges include the risk of standardization and institutional isomorphism, research relevance and quality, and the consequences of globalization on accreditation criteria.

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“…Both Dameron and Durand () and Tiratsoo () argue that the prime cause of institutional isomorphism in the higher education sector has been the American model of ME whereby accredited schools and those in pursuit of accreditation are playing a game of catching‐up with American schools. This has led to discussions among European B‐schools about the need for alternative scenarios based on a combination of imitation and differentiation (Nioche, ). Incorporating these arguments and employing the RBV, we shall argue that, influenced by accreditation mechanisms, the convergence of ME between Britain and France will become a new impetus for divergence that involves novel adaptation rather than mere accommodation of a dominant model.…”

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“…Created in 1997, the EQUIS label was designed as the first international system of quality assessment, improvement and accreditation of higher education institutions in management and business administration. EQUIS is based on continuous improvement through regular comparison with other institutions with the resultant award conferring that an institution is international in terms of the student body, faculty and research undertaken (Nioche, ). At present, EFMD has 131 EQUIS accredited schools across 38 countries (http://www.efmd.org).…”

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Convergence and Divergence Dynamics inBritish andFrench Business Schools: How Will the Pressure for Accreditation Influence these Dynamics?

Thomas

Billsberry

Ambrosini

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British J of Management

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This paper focuses on convergence and divergence dynamics among leading British and French business schools and explores how the pressure for accreditation influences these dynamics. We illustrate that despite historical differences in approaches to management education in Britain and France, these approaches have converged partly based on the influence of the American model of management education but more recently through the pursuit of accreditation, in particular from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and the European Quality Improvement Standard. We explore these dynamics through the application of the resource‐based view of the firm and institutional theory and suggest that, whilst achieving accreditation is a necessary precursor for international competition, it is no longer a form of competitive advantage. The pursuit of accreditation has fostered a form of competitive mimicry reducing national distinctiveness. The resource‐based view of the firm suggests that the top schools need a more heterogeneous approach that is not easily replicable if they are to outperform the competitors. Consequently, the convergence of management education in Britain and France will become a new impetus for divergence. We assert that future growth and competitive advantage might be better achieved through the reassertion of national, regional and local cultural characteristics.

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La montée en puissance des accréditations non étatiques

Cited by 10 publications

References 1 publication

From ‘Ecoles Supérieures de Commerce’ to ‘Management Schools’: transformations and continuity in French business schools

From ‘Ecoles Supérieures de Commerce’ to ‘Management Schools’: transformations and continuity in French business schools

International Accreditations as Drivers of Business School Quality Improvement

Convergence and Divergence Dynamics inBritish andFrench Business Schools: How Will the Pressure for Accreditation Influence these Dynamics?

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