Of Performance and Impact: How AACSB Accreditation Contributes to Research in Business Schools

Veretennik, Elena; Okulova, Olga

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“…Business schools bearing the Association of Advanced Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) designation send signals of quality, academic excellence, and legitimacy (Faria and Mixon 2022) to would-be students. Maintenance of AACSB accreditation requires adherence to a comprehensive list of programmatic and faculty performance standards emphasizing research productivity (Veretennik and Okulova 2022). As such, faculty efforts and incentive structures heavily lean toward research activities in the leading institutions bearing the quality marker of this accreditation.…”

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United States Education Structure is Under Stress: Exploring the Destabilization of Academia's System Settings

Riley,

Bryant,

Nicewicz-Scott

et al. 2024

Journal of Macromarketing

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This research interprets the destabilization in U.S. higher education using Layton's theory of marketing systems to detail disruptions to academia's system settings. It highlights three impacted areas: governance, sentiment, and transformation. The authors examine the interplay between societal, technological, competitive, and political power shifts as major disruptors reshaping higher education. It critically examines these shifts by intertwining history with the demands of today's evolving landscape, emphasizing the need for transformative change. Layton's theory is utilized in this study to provide stakeholders a starting point to make informed, situationally aware strategic decisions during the choice and value-added phases of the framework based on Layton's Marketing Systems Theory.

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Section: The Role Of Accreditation In the Us Higher Education's Syste...mentioning

confidence: 99%

United States Education Structure is Under Stress: Exploring the Destabilization of Academia's System Settings

Riley,

Bryant,

Nicewicz-Scott

et al. 2024

Journal of Macromarketing

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Business scholars’ time allocation under the lens of the self-managed approach of academic’s role and the outcome-focused perspective of university’s strategic management

Amara,

Rhaiem

2024

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PurposeThis article explores whether six broad categories of activities undertaken by Canadian business scholars’ academics: publications record, citations record, teaching load, administrative load, consulting activities, and knowledge spillovers transfer, are complementary, substitute, or independent, as well as the conditions under which complementarities, substitution and independence among these activities are likely to occur.Design/methodology/approachA multivariate probit model is estimated to take into account that business scholars have to consider simultaneously whether or not to undertake many different academic activities. Metrics from Google Scholar of scholars from 35 Canadian business schools, augmented by a survey data on factors explaining the productivity and impact performances of these faculty members, are used to explain the heterogeneities between the determinants of these activities.FindingsOverall, the results reveal that there are complementarities between publications and citations, publications and knowledge spillovers transfer, citations and consulting, and between consulting and knowledge spillovers transfer. The results also suggest that there are substitution effects between publications and teaching, publications and administrative load, citations and teaching load, and teaching load and administrative load. Moreover, results show that public and private funding, business schools’ reputation, scholar’s relational resources, and business school size are among the most influential variables on the scholar’s portfolio of activities.Originality/valueThis study considers simultaneously the scholar’s whole portfolio of activities. Moreover, the determinants considered in this study to explain scholars’ engagement in different activities reconcile two conflicting perspectives: (1) the traditional self-managed approach of academics, and (2) the outcomes-focused approach of university management.

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AACSB’s failures in guarding the ethical henhouse of business schools

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2023

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This essay is written to provoke a reaction against the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. When a business school’s administration is criminally convicted of conspiracy to commit fraud and yet it retains its accreditations, something is wrong. Accreditors expect that we enforce ethical standards like “no cheating” on our students but do not enforce those standards on deans, even in cases of publicly-admitted years-long submissions of misrepresentative rankings data. That inconsistency is not lost on us, given the explicit statements such accreditors have about quality, social responsibility, and serving students—all of which are violated in their inactions when their paying members (or their graduates) are involved in harmful behaviors. Management learning is negatively affected as a result; whatever we state in the classroom about ethics is effectively drowned out by what standards are actually enforced in the real world by those who claim to provide legitimacy to our programs and give us a license to operate. So, it is time to address that. An implementable solution is proposed, one which if not adopted should lead to serious consideration of the dissolution of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and any other accreditor who fails to provide the public service expected of it.

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Of Performance and Impact: How AACSB Accreditation Contributes to Research in Business Schools

Cited by 3 publications

References 58 publications

United States Education Structure is Under Stress: Exploring the Destabilization of Academia's System Settings

United States Education Structure is Under Stress: Exploring the Destabilization of Academia's System Settings

Business scholars’ time allocation under the lens of the self-managed approach of academic’s role and the outcome-focused perspective of university’s strategic management

AACSB’s failures in guarding the ethical henhouse of business schools

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