Collaborative leadership as the lens for co-creating an innovation - A curriculum reform in management education

Abstract

The paper presents collaborative leadership to create a curriculum reform in management education. In our case study, a particular business school wanted to re-modify its curriculum according to turbulence coming, first, outside of the school in terms of increasing complexity in business life and, second, from inside in terms of a large merger. As a consequence, in the co-creation process, a socially-mediated perturbance process started in the school in order to answer the turbulence. According our preliminary results, this kind of process seems to be multilevel and multiphase. It requires new attitudes and a change of the mindset to see management education containing not only knowledge but also the whole doing and being of a student. In sum, the co-creation process appeared to be crucial to foster the change and manage perturbance.