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I’m Glad I Met You: Ageism Interventions in an Entrepreneurship Course Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Nancy Forster-Holt, Philip Clark
It is important that students across university disciplines and class years explore their attitudes about ageism, aging, and older adults. Yet few if any ageism interventions in academic settings are directed at business students, instead targeting disciplines such as health sciences. In this paper we offer requisite detail of ageism workshops we developed for use in an undergraduate entrepreneurship
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Brave New Classroom: Navigating Educational Technology in Management Education Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Scott J. Allen, Steven A. Edelson
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On the Road: See You at Sessions, Socials, and On-Screen During Spring and Summer 2024 Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Jennifer S. A. Leigh, Melanie A. Robinson
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Introducing a Problem-Posing Protocol to Encourage Management Students’ Reflections on Sustainability Premises Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Carlos Jonathan Santos, Janette Brunstein, Mark Edward Walvoord
The goal of this article is to examine and develop problem-posing case study teaching methods to promote business students’ reflections on their premises around sustainability practices. Literature on transformative learning in sustainability informed our hypothesis that problem-posing instead of problem-solving case study teaching would yield greater incidences of students’ premise reflections at
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Call for Papers: Preparing Leaders to Tackle Grand Challenges Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2024-03-13
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Tools or Fools: Are We Educating Managers or Creating Tool-Dependent Robots? Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Steven J. Hyde, Antoine Busby, Robert L. Bonner
This essay examines strategies for thoughtfully integrating generative AI (Gen-AI) into management curricula to enhance student learning while mitigating risks like overreliance. We make the case that outright resistance is counterproductive; instead, management educators should embrace Gen-AI’s potential to create more engaging, experiential learning aligned with andragogical principles. We provide
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Teaching Students About Workplace Harassment by Letting Them Experience it in a Virtual Reality Environment Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Robert Steinbauer
We are in the midst of a technological revolution that has the potential to transform management education. The author proposes Virtual Reality (VR) as a pedagogical tool to teach students about workplace harassment. Specifically, this article describes the development and application of two open access VR simulations that are designed to increase students’ awareness of sexism and racism at work. These
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Conflict Expression Types: Introducing a New Experiential Exercise Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Gergana Todorova, John E. Barbuto
Conflict expression describes the way people convey opposition across six types (debate, argue, tease, dismiss, complain, and disguise). The concept has garnered increased attention among management scholars, but experiential exercises to guide instruction are needed. This paper presents an engaging activity that encourages participants to experience the six conflict expression types. We provide guidelines
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Opening Minds for a Career with Impact Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Ans De Vos, Sofie Jacobs, Kathleen Vangronsvelt, Karen Wouters, Jan Beyne
This article provides an overview of the Global Leadership course, a 6-credit course integrated within the curriculum of all advanced master programs of Antwerp Management School and designed to align with the school’s overarching mission. The course challenges and facilitates students in developing their leadership as a basis for making career choices, explicitly framing it within a global perspective
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Developing Interdisciplinary Learning: Spanning Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Peter Smith, Lisa Jane Callagher, Paul Hibbert, Elisabeth Krull, John Hosking
Based on a study of a postgraduate course, we show how—through the processes associated with applying a strategic tool—students developed the understandings that allowed them to span disciplinary and organizational boundaries. We reveal how the students, working in groups and acting as consultants to industry clients, developed specific boundary-spanning skills learned through observation and practice
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Reader Perceptions of Authorial Voice in Top-Tier Management Journals: The Case of Doctoral Students of Management From Eastern Europe Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Iga Maria Lehman, Łukasz Sułkowski
The pressure to publish in scholarly journals has been increasingly pervading doctoral education worldwide and has become a high-stakes activity for any novice writer who wishes to pursue an academ...
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Redesigning a Course Evaluation Instrument: Experience, Practical Guidance, and Lessons Learned Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Aimee L. Williamson, Irene Guannan Wang
Course evaluation instruments (CEIs) are widespread, influential components of faculty professional development and evaluation processes. Given their importance to continuous instructional improvem...
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Teaching During War in Ukraine: Service-Learning as a Tool for Facilitating Student Learning and Engagement During Times of Uncertainty and Crisis Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Amy L. Kenworthy, Sophia Opatska
As the past 3 years have illustrated, crisis and uncertainty are part of the fabric of our lives. In our roles as management educators, the importance of helping our students develop skills to navi...
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Grand Challenges and the MBA Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Amanda Shantz, Melissa Sayer, Janice Byrne, Kiera Dempsey-Brench
Humanity is facing multiple grand challenges, compelling a myriad of diverse actors to interact, coordinate, and collaborate like never before. Business schools have a role to play in equipping fut...
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Aging Well in Management Education: An Interview Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Stephen D. Risavy, Gene Deszca
With an unprecedently aging population and the abolition of mandatory retirement in many countries, management educators are remaining in their jobs longer than ever before; thus, it has never been...
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Complementing Intersectionality Pedagogy With a Missing Component—Positionality Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Terry A. Nelson
Teaching about race as an African American female instructor at a predominantly white university has its challenges, especially regarding classroom power and privilege dynamics. I use the concepts ...
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Who Says It’s Common? Rethink Our Assumptions About Common Sense in Teaching Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Yifeng Fan, Toschia M. Hogan
There has been strong advocacy for educators to extensively examine pedagogical assumptions to design more inclusive and accessible classes. However, our assumptions about inclusivity and the inter...
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Contextual and Experiential Understandings of Privilege as Intersectional Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Kevin D. Lo
With ongoing racial tensions, terms such as antiracism and diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) are buzzwords on campuses across the United States. Yet resources, especially in management education, ...
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Aligning Leadership Education: Linking Interpersonal Skills Development to Business Needs Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Julia A. Fulmore, Jude Olson, Rosemary Maellaro
A disconnect has long existed between what is typically taught in management education programs and what real-world organizations seek in their leadership candidates, particularly regarding interpe...
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Disrupting Privilege as Power and Control: Re-Imagining Business and the Appreciation of Indigenous Stewardship in Management Education Curricula Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Anna Young-Ferris, Ranjit Voola
We explore privilege and its systemic intertwining with management education curricula. We take the view that privilege as power and control is intimately bound up with shareholder primacy as a fou...
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Bringing “Class” into the Classroom: Addressing Social Class Privilege Through Management Education Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Kristie J. N. Moergen, Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart
Research increasingly acknowledges the far-reaching impact of social class and the many ways in which it can meaningfully shape individuals’ work and working lives. As such, social class and concom...
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An Exercise for Expanding Privilege Awareness Among Management Students and Faculty Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Verónica Caridad Rabelo, Robert L. Bonner, Oscar Jerome Stewart
The ability to notice and eliminate organizational inequities begins with privilege awareness: an understanding of how individuals and social groups experience exemption from discrimination as well...
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Addressing Privilege in Teamwork: Design Tools for Critical Management Education Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Florence Villesèche, Stina Teilmann-Lock
In this article, we argue that a key diversity issue to be tackled in the classroom is disparity: Some students are more privileged than others, and their inputs are more valued than others’. There...
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Gamifying Online Training in Management Education to Support Emotional Engagement and Problem-solving Skills Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Sofia Marlena Schöbel, Andreas Janson, Jan Marco Leimeister
Online training to improve problem-solving skills has become increasingly important in management learning. In online environments, learners take a more active role which can lead to stressful situ...
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A More Relevant MBA: The Role of Across-the-Curriculum Delivery of Intercompetency Coursework in Aligning the Required Curriculum With Required Managerial Competencies Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Naveen Amblee, Hubert Ertl, Deepak Dhayanithy
Despite their widespread popularity in the United States, MBA programs have received considerable and sustained criticism. The chief complaint is that MBA graduates lack key skills required to be c...
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Fifty and Fabulous Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Jennifer Susan Anne Leigh
This coming year the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS), the sponsor of this journal, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. This is a major milestone, to say the least, especially during the last three tumultuous years of the pandemic. The society is planning a variety of activities throughout the year and an exciting 50th-year conference in Florida, USA, hosted by
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Controversy Teaching Approaches: Model, Measure, and Teaching Applications Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Stuart Allen
Controversies are a potentially powerful teaching tool in the management classroom enabling students to explore different perspectives on an issue and to develop their skills in areas such as criti...
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Look at Our Journey: Prompting the Marginalism of Superior Utility with a Higher Subjective Value to Motivate Management Student Meta-Learning Processes Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Paul Cook
Improving perceptions of graduate utility is fundamental to Higher Education’s employability and skills agenda. However, utility enhancement is a ubiquitous consequence of all learning. Therefore, ...
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The Experience of Manuscript Rejection: Insights From the JME Associate Editors Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Marissa S. Edwards, Jennifer S. A. Leigh
Manuscript rejection is a common and often unpleasant experience for academics, and management education scholars are no exception. With many business schools globally demanding that faculty focus on publishing in top-tier journals, many of which have very low acceptance rates, most of us spend our time writing manuscripts that are rejected at some point in time. Of course, this is not a new phenomenon
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The Costs, Quality, and Scalability of Blended Learning in Postgraduate Management Education Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Mara Soncin, Tommaso Agasisti, Federico Frattini, Andrea Patrucco, Margherita Pero
With its combination of online and face-to-face interaction, blended learning is increasingly being employed in postgraduate education. To date, most empirical research on the topic has focused on ...
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Ninja Training Meets Management Education: Integrating Taijutsu into an MBA Complexity Leadership Course Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Julian Norris
In this paper I describe the integration of taijutsu, a martial art emerging from the Japanese ninja tradition, into an MBA complexity leadership course. There is broad consensus amongst leadership...
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Starting Engaging Conversations: Introducing the Interview Section Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Marissa S. Edwards, Jennifer S. A. Leigh
In our (almost) 12 months as JME co-editors, we have had a wonderful time exploring various aspects of the journal and implementing new ideas and ventures to keep JME up-to-date and relevant to the management education community. Some of these initiatives include invigorating our social media presence, offering more hybrid and online workshops in new places around the world, and moving to inviting
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Disrupting Dominant Narratives and Privilege: Teaching Black Women’s Enterprise and Activism Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Holly Slay Ferraro
This article deals with my experience of teaching a course on Black women’s enterprise and activism as a means of disrupting the dominant narratives that privilege accounts of Whites and men in the...
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Teaching Evaluations and Student Grades: That’s Not Fair! Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Juliana D. Lilly, Kamphol Wipawayangkool, Michael Pass
University teachers and students are evaluated regularly on their performance, and when evaluations are lower than expected, the feedback may be threatening to the individual, potentially causing d...
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The Role of Students’ Personal Values and Ethical Ideologies in Increasing the Importance of Perceptions of Social Responsibility for Business Students: A PRME Directive Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-02-12 Chad Saunders, Barb Marcolin, Jennifer Cherneski
The United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) champion responsible management education and research globally by instilling social responsibility values in students through teaching, research, and service. As investment capital shifts toward sustainable opportunities and companies recognize the limitations of an exclusive focus on shareholders (to the exclusion of broader
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Principles for Responsible Management Education: An Axiological Approach Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Luc K. Audebrand, Matthias Pepin
In this article, we rely on the development of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to show the relevance of a values-based approach to responsible management. To clarify the notion of values, we draw on Heinich’s axiological sociology, which presents values as principles of judgment and action. Building on this approach, we interviewed 35 management scholars to understand the values they attribute
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What’s So Special About Special Issues? A Discussion of Their Benefits and Challenges Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Jennifer S. A. Leigh, Marissa S. Edwards
Welcome to our second issue of the year! As we are all experiencing, living through the COVID-19 crisis has been an emotionally draining time for us all. Now the pandemic continues to present challenges both in and outside of our classrooms due to new variants emerging and swiftly changing lockdowns and border restrictions. As we start our next terms, we recognize that many of our students are similarly
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Launching an Online Business Program at Scale: A Retrospective Case Study of Disruptive Innovation Before the Pandemic Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Raj Echambadi, Arshad Saiyed, Norma I. Scagnoli, Madhu Viswanathan
How does an online graduate business program become the fastest growing program in a short span of 5 years, in a category that has been showing constant decline in the last decade? This article takes a retrospective look at the journey from conception to launch and early implementation of an innovative online program at a large public university about half a decade before the pandemic. Extant research
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Interpersonal Mindfulness in Leadership Development: A Delphi Study Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Rachel Lewis, Joanna Yarker, Lilith A. Whiley
Mindfulness is increasingly being used within leadership development to enhance managers’ wellbeing and leadership capability. Given the relational nature of leadership, we posit that an interpersonal form of mindfulness has the potential to offer benefits over and above those provided by personal or internal mindfulness. We therefore chose a Delphi research methodology to consult and achieve consensus
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Getting Published in JME: Top 10 Tips From the Co-Editors Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Marissa S. Edwards, Jennifer S. A. Leigh
We are excited to welcome you to our first issue of 2022! We hope that all our readers (and reviewers!) have enjoyed a restful break over the holiday season. As we discussed in our closing editorial last year, 2021 was a challenging year for everyone, and we hope that the coming 12 months will be relatively less stressful as we continue to adjust to “the new normal.” As we move toward more face-to-face
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Fear or Competition? Antecedents to U.S. Business Student Immigration Attitudes Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Michael J. Maloni, David M. Gligor, Tim Blumentritt, Nichole Gligor
Immigration is an important and contemporary topic in management education given its impact on labor, wages, innovation, and diversity. However, extant research offers few insights into the antecedents to student immigration attitudes. Survey data from undergraduate students taking business courses at two large public universities in the southeast U.S. reveal that while student attitudes toward immigration
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Promoting Case-Based Learning in Business Higher Education in the Middle East and North Africa Region Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-12-12 Nizar Becheikh, Maha Mourad, Ahmed Tolba
The case method has made inroads as a pedagogical tool that can sharpen students’ analytical skills and better prepare them for the reality awaiting them professionally. Despite its deep-seated origins in the West, the case method remains underused in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The purpose of this study is to explore the main challenges that MENA business higher education institutions
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Contrasting 4 Year Outcomes Associated With Introduction to Management Courses Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Malu Roldan
Management faculty members have had a longstanding interest in the design of the Introduction to Management Course as it presents an opportune point to provide students with the foundational skills for success in their Management Studies. Since many Management majors take these courses during their freshman year in the university, the courses are, intentionally or not, also settings for helping students
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The Role of STEM-Based Sustainability in Business and Management Curricula: Exploring Cognitive and Affective Outcomes in University Students Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Christopher A. Craig, Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers, Susan Gilbertz, Rita Karam, Song Feng
To address deficiencies in STEM and sustainability in business management and intra-university curricula, we developed and implemented an interdisciplinary STEM-based sustainability curriculum at a university in the Western United States. Six classes participated in curricular efforts including in-person and online sections of a business management course, in-person and online sections of a general
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Short-Term Study Abroad Research: A Systematic Review 2000-2019 Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Marina Iskhakova, Andrew Bradly
Short-term study abroad (STSA) programs are the fastest growing segment of experiential learning programs in management education and the least studied. This is the first systematic review of STSA research, which focuses on 156 studies on STSA published between 2000 and 2019 and proposes a conceptual model to guide STSA research scholars. Through this detailed review, we provide a greater understanding
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Drowning on Dry Land: Looking Back and Learning From COVID-19 Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Jennifer S. A. Leigh, Marissa S. Edwards
As we start to round out 2021, we know that many people will be feeling a sense of exhaustion, both physically and emotionally. The last 18 months, as one colleague aptly put it, has felt like drowning; a constant swimming against the tide; an endless battle to keep our heads above water. As our readers will be aware, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on higher education around the world
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Curriculum Adaptation for Blended Learning in Resource-Scarce Contexts Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Michael Zisuh Ngoasong
Drawing on three action research case studies involving several African universities, this article critically explores how academics converted their previously pure classroom-based courses for delivery through blended learning. The case studies reflect resource-scarce contexts where limited access to digital technology and the internet poses unique challenges to universities seeking to scale-up management
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Republication of “Principles of effective course design: What I wish I had known about learning-centered teaching 30 years ago” Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-09-30 David A. Whetten
Ten years ago, after 20 years as a university professor, I was asked to direct the teaching and learning support center at my university. I quickly realized I had almost no knowledge of the published scholarship on this subject. From my reading of this literature, I found the research on the predictors of student learning particularly informative. In particular, I gained an appreciation for the impact
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The Effect of Gender Inequities in the Classroom and Beyond in U.S. Business Schools Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-09-17 David B. Balkin, Len J. Treviño, Caroline Straub
When women teach management in U.S. business schools they are likely to experience more gender inequities than men. In this essay we examine three dimensions of management teaching where gender inequities are likely to occur: (1) student-faculty interactions; (2) student evaluations of teaching; and (3) interactions between faculty peers. The types of inequities experienced by women when they teach
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Balancing “Critique for Improvement” With “Critique for Emancipation” in Management Learning and Education Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Andreas Wallo, Jason Martin, Gun Sparrhoff, Henrik Kock
Promoting the capacity for critical reflection is a pivotal part of management learning and education. Based on the concept of developmental learning, the purpose of this paper is to explore and outline two types of critical reflection: critique for improvement and critique for emancipation. Critique for improvement is based on a performative intent and is aimed at using critical reflection to improve
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Crossvergence in International Management Education: Acquisition of Skills and Career Outcomes Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-08-23 F. Robert Buchanan, Prashanth N. Bharadwaj
Organizational crossvergence is the identifying framework in this study of the emerging similarities between both educational systems and business systems in India and the United States. A sample of 237 international MBA graduates was examined relative to the education they received in a combined United States and India management program. They studied in both countries, and pursued careers in either
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An Approach for Humanizing Leadership Education: Building Learning Community & Stakeholder Engagement Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Shaista E. Khilji
In recent years, scholars have become critical of mainstream leadership development approaches. In particular, Petriglieri and Petriglieri refer to the dehumanization of leadership, whereby leadership breaks its ties to identity, community, and context. The purpose of this paper is to present an approach for humanizing leadership using the case example of George Washington University’s Organizational
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Fritz J. Roethlisberger Award Goes to “Teaching Scenario Planning in Sustainability Courses: The Creative Play Method” Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Emily K. Tarr,Ken Mullane
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How to Become Involved in JME? Joining the Peer-Review Process Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Jennifer S. A. Leigh,Marissa S. Edwards
“How does one become an editor?” is a question that many of our nonacademic friends and family members have been asking us the past few months as we trained and transitioned into this role. This made us realize that there is a proverbial “black box” in terms of professional development and promotion for those outside our field, such that most people have little understanding of how we transition into
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Teaching Perspectives on Experiential Learning in Large Classes Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-08-03 Annette Clancy, John G. Cullen, Alison Hood, Claire McGuinness
Higher education places an ever-growing value on innovative teaching practices that facilitate learning among students, who will then proceed to integrate it into their professional practices. At the same time, student enrolments continue to grow, and many have drawn attention to complaints that this “massification” equates to a lower-quality learning experience for students (Ahmed, 2016; Hornsby &
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A Balanced Strategy for Entrepreneurship Education: Engaging Students by Using Multiple Course Modes in a Business Curriculum Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-07-18 Christian Schultz
Entrepreneurship education has become a regular part of the higher education curriculum worldwide. However, the distinct impacts of different pedagogical methods remain unclear. I develop six hypotheses and test them on a sample of participants in a business plan course and a lean startup camp. While any entrepreneurship course participation contributes to the students’ entrepreneurial intentions,
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Should It Stay or Should It Go? Developing an Enhanced SWOT Framework for Teaching Strategy Formulation Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Franz T. Lohrke, Matthew J. Mazzei, Cynthia Frownfelter-Lohrke
Strategy educators have employed SWOT analysis for decades as a means of teaching strategy formulation to students. Despite this well-established practice, many scholars and practitioners have called for discontinuing it as a pedagogical tool for several reasons, including that traditional undergraduate students may lack the practical experience to employ SWOT correctly, the framework presents “messy”
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In Favor of Large Classes: A Social Networks Perspective on Experiential Learning Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Alexander K. Kofinas, Crystal Han-Huei Tsay
Most of the literature has viewed large classes as a problem and a challenge. Furthermore, large classes are often presented to be an obstacle to students’ experiential learning and a multitude of solutions can be found in the literature to manage large classes; solutions that include innovative technologies, alternative assessment designs, or expanding the capacity of delivery. This conceptual paper
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Cocurricular Learning in Management Education: Lessons From Legal Education’s Use of Student-Edited Journals Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-06-09 Matt Theeke, Matthew I. Hall
In this essay, we draw on insights from U.S. legal education’s century-long experiment using student-edited journals as a cocurricular learning tool, to develop the argument that management education should consider introducing a new category of student-edited, practitioner-oriented journals. Student-edited journals are potentially well-suited for management education because they encourage students
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What’s the Plan? Some Ideas about JME’s Strategy and Preparations for Post-Pandemic Teaching & Learning Journal of Management Education Pub Date : 2021-05-28 Marissa S. Edwards, Jennifer S. A. Leigh
We are delighted to commence as the new JME co-Editors-in-Chief and warmly welcome readers to our first issue at the helm. We are both humbled and excited to step into the role and look forward to engaging with you all! Our enthusiasm about this leadership opportunity during COVID-19 might be perplexing to many. Indeed, when we told our family, friends, and colleagues that we were applying for this