Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms
- 1 Introduction: A world of governance: The rise of transnational regulation
- I Institutional forces
- II A dynamic transnational topography
- III Transnational governance in the making
- 12 Dynamics of soft regulations
- 13 Contested rules and shifting boundaries: International standard-setting in accounting
- 14 The international competition network: Moving towards transnational governance
- 15 The emergence of a European regulatory field of management education
- 16 Market creation and transnational rule-making: The case of CO2 emissions trading
- 17 Transnational NGO certification programs as new regulatory forms: Lessons from the forestry sector
- 18 Institutional dynamics in a re-ordering world
- References
- Index
15 - The emergence of a European regulatory field of management education
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms
- 1 Introduction: A world of governance: The rise of transnational regulation
- I Institutional forces
- II A dynamic transnational topography
- III Transnational governance in the making
- 12 Dynamics of soft regulations
- 13 Contested rules and shifting boundaries: International standard-setting in accounting
- 14 The international competition network: Moving towards transnational governance
- 15 The emergence of a European regulatory field of management education
- 16 Market creation and transnational rule-making: The case of CO2 emissions trading
- 17 Transnational NGO certification programs as new regulatory forms: Lessons from the forestry sector
- 18 Institutional dynamics in a re-ordering world
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Management education has expanded dramatically around the world over recent decades. The expansion has been particularly salient in Europe, where existing business schools have flourished, and new ones have proliferated. As business schools have grown, so has the number of programs on offer, particularly Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs. Linked to this expansion, professional associations, the media, states, expert groups, international organizations, and many other entities perform monitoring and assessment activities and circulate extensive information about management education. Accreditation and ranking are two such activities, originating in the US but nowadays also well established in Europe. Since the late 1990s, management education providers in Europe have been accredited after going through quality assessment processes of, for instance, the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and the leading US accrediting organization, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Schools and programs have also been assessed in international rankings in major business newspapers and magazines. These rankings were largely inspired by those conducted by US newspapers, and were also influenced by European and US accreditation standards and by the characteristics of the most prestigious management programs worldwide.
Accreditation and ranking are not only ways of monitoring, assessing, and spreading information about management education; we argue that they have become new modes of regulation for management education. Their emergence affects other forms of regulation and the development of management education in general.
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- Transnational GovernanceInstitutional Dynamics of Regulation, pp. 308 - 328Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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