• Media type: E-Book; Bibliography
  • Title: Ranking business schools : forming fields, identities and boundaries in international management education
  • Contributor: Wedlin, Linda [Author]
  • Corporation: Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Published: Cheltenham, U.K; Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar, 2006
  • Published in: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 213 p); ill
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.4337/9781847200273
  • ISBN: 9781847200273
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: AL 19800 : Hochschulevaluation
    QP 371 : Unternehmerausbildung, Führungsnachwuchsschulung
  • Keywords: Internationaler Vergleich > Managementschule > Ranking
    Betriebswirtschaftliches Studium > Hochschule > Internationaler Vergleich > Ranking
    Managementschule
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: International comparisons and rankings of universities and business schools have proliferated in recent years. Ranking Business Schools provides a welcome analysis of this development and its implications for the field of management education, theorizing the role of classifications such as rankings in forming and structuring organizational fields

    1. European management education and the proliferation of business school rankings -- 2. The role of classifications in organizational fields -- 3. A European business school field in the making -- 4. The forming and re-forming of a business school template -- 5. The creation and re-creation of positions -- 6. Business school rankings and the autonomy of the field -- 7. Forming a field and making a market in international management education -- 8. Arenas for forming identities, fields and boundaries