Organization Change and Development in Higher Education, a Neo-Institutional Approach of Accreditation: The Case of a Lebanese Business School

Charbel Chedrawi (), Pierrette Howayeck (el) () and Alain Osta ()
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Charbel Chedrawi: Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon
Pierrette Howayeck (el): Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon
Alain Osta: Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon

European Journal of Studies in Management and Business, 2018, vol. 5, 1-15

Abstract: The greater competitiveness and uncertainty of today’s environment have led a growing number of organizations to alter drastically the way in which they operate (Cummings and Worley, 2015). This article discusses organizational change and development in higher education with a neo-institutional approach of an accreditation process. It presents accreditation as a fundamental change especially after becoming a central issue for trust and accountability, student mobility requirements and borderless markets for higher education following the Bologna agenda. Within this context, the neo-institutionalism theory was adopted in order to explain and analyze why organizations end up having the same organizational structure even though they evolve in different ways. Using a qualitative approach, this paper reveals the actions currently undertaken by the Faculty of Business and Management in Saint Joseph University in Beirut which recently entered into the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) process of accreditation; pushed to extreme change in a very competitive environment in order to assume its competitive role on the market.

Keywords: Accreditation; Neo†Institutional Theory; Organization Development; Higher Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.32038/mbrq.2018.01.001

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