Redesigning Management Education and Research

Challenging Proposals from European Scholars

Edited by Stephanie Dameron, Professor and Chair of Strategic Management and Business Intelligence, Paris Dauphine University, France and Thomas Durand, Professor, Chair of Strategic Management and Head, Management-Innovation-Prospective Department, CNAM, Paris, France. They both sit on the executive board of SFM – the French Academy of Management.

The field of management education and research has become an industry of its own – an industry with fierce international competition in a global arena. Here, the authors argue that a series of mechanisms has led to mimicking and thus strategic convergence among business schools. The authors further argue that this has resulted in a loss of relevance and diversity of the management knowledge produced and taught in a multipolar world. They view this as counterproductive to business schools, students, firms, societies and other stakeholders, including scholars themselves.