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Does International Business Accreditation Assure Quality Or Constrain Innovation?

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  • Michael J. Page
  • Niek Brunsveld
  • Dianne L. Bevelander

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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

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  • Michael J. Page & Niek Brunsveld & Dianne L. Bevelander, 2017. "Does International Business Accreditation Assure Quality Or Constrain Innovation?," Business Education and Accreditation, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 9(2), pages 15-26.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibf:beaccr:v:9:y:2017:i:2:p:15-26
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    Keywords

    Accreditation; Content Analysis; Innovation; Business Schools;
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    • M19 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Other

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