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The myth of the global market for business education
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Business Studies.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Business Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9169-9704
2023 (English)In: Debating the Business School Legitimacy: Attacking, Rocking, and Defending the Status Quo / [ed] Anders Örtenblad & Riina Koris, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, p. 167-180Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Business education has long been a very successful segment of higher education; the number of institutions offering such education has multiplied many times over. This has led to efforts by these institutions to differentiate themselves by means of international rankings and accreditations. As a result, it is widely believed that markets for business education are global. This chapter questions this idea by identifying the limits of global labor markets for education. Even in times of strong internationalization, most students—particularly in non-English speaking countries—stay in their home country for both education and work. Therefore, most business schools, taking advantage of internationally developed knowledge, should focus on providing business education that prepares students for successful careers in their home country. They should also prepare their students for a global world by adding to their curricula languages other than English as well as history, literature, and other subjects from the humanities.

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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. p. 167-180
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Palgrave Debates in Business and Management (PDBM), ISSN 2524-5082, E-ISSN 2524-5090
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Rankings, Accreditation, World class, Globalization, Embeddedness, Flagships
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Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-484066DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-12725-0_8ISBN: 978-3-031-12724-3 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-12727-4 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-12725-0 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-484066DiVA, id: diva2:1693593
Available from: 2022-09-07 Created: 2022-09-07 Last updated: 2023-02-06Bibliographically approved

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