Business School Research by Cornuel, Eric; Thomas, Howard; Wood, Matthew;

Short description:

This second open access book in the EFMD Management Education series explores business schools’ increasing focus on, and search for, meaningful societal and economic research impact. The book doesn’t simply highlight the need for the dominant research model in business schools to evolve, but illustrates how this can happen in practice.

Long description:

This second book in the EFMD Management Education series explores business schools’ increasing focus on, and search for, meaningful societal and economic research impact. This involves, in particular, co-operation and collaboration in both knowledge creation and implementation of the findings of academic research in practice.

Business schools have a critical role to play in ‘rewiring’ our missions for research relevance, impact and reach, and in recognising needs and addressing real issues of society and economy. With cases from a range of international business schools, the book doesn’t simply highlight the need for the dominant research model in business schools to evolve, but illustrates how this can happen in practice. In so doing, it opens the discussion on how the business school can contribute in very real ways to solving global and complex challenges such as climate change, rising inequalities, international isolationism, eroding democratic systems, and the spread of fake news.

These are goals that the EFMD has championed since its inception, and this book will be of value and interest to policy makers and business leaders seeking insight into how management education will be shaped to support business and wider society, as well as those working in business schools and higher education leaders.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Introduction  1. Introducing Business School Research and Positive Impact  Part 2: Papers on Positive and Societal Impact from an EFMD Perspective  2. EFMD and Societal Impact  3. The Evolution of EFMD's Excellence in Practice Awards: A 15-year Journey of Supporting Impactful Growth  Part 3: Concepts of the Purposeful Business School  4. Management Research with Purpose  5. Impact-Driven Research: The Case of Hult  6. Research Impact at an Unusual Academic Institution: IMD’s Journey  7. Research and Positive Impact: Henley Business School in the African Context  Part 4: Research Ecosystems, Partnerships and Collective Know-How  8. Developing a Responsible Research Strategy at Saïd Business School  9. Managing to Make Impactful Business and Management Researchers in the Anthropocene  10. Responsible, Rigorous, and Impactful Research Through Engagement  Part 5: Complex Societal Impact Projects Requiring Tri-Sector Collaboration and Cooperation  11. The Role of Business Schools in Creating National Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Case of Egypt and the AUC School of Business  12. Making Wales an Anti-racist Nation: A ‘Public Value Mission’ in Action  13. Leaving the Theory Cave: Forays into Innovation Policy and Practice in Wales  14. Empowering Vulnerable Populations Through Transformative Approaches and Research  15. The Female Leader: Experiences from the Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa