 DOES INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ACCREDITATION ASSURE QUALITY OR CONSTRAIN INNOVATION?Michael J. Page, Niek Brunsveld and Dianne L. Bevelander Business Education and Accreditation, 2017, vol. 9, issue 2, 15-26 Abstract: This paper employs textual analysis to investigate whether business school accreditation guidelines may be considered to facilitate innovation. We identify the relative dominance of concepts and themes within accreditation guidelines of the three primary international business school associations. They demonstrate a relative paucity of concepts broadly related to innovation and a lack of sustained attention to experimentation and transformation. The location of these concepts within the various themes suggests that innovation is generally associated with discipline-based research while concepts with lesser innovative connotations are associated with education. We conclude that dominant business school accreditation standards do not yet induce behavior that extends much beyond focusing on assuring quality based upon past performance and metrics aligned with guaranteeing similar future outcomes Keywords: Accreditation; Content Analysis; Innovation; Business Schools (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ibf:beaccr:v:9:y:2017:i:2:p:15-26 Access Statistics for this article Business Education and Accreditation is currently edited by Terrance Jalbert More articles in Business Education and Accreditation from The Institute for Business and Finance Research |
Is your work missing from RePEc? Here is how to contribute.
Questions or problems? Check the EconPapers FAQ or send mail to .
EconPapers is hosted by the
School of Business at Örebro University.