dc.contributor.author | Alajoutsijärvi, Kimmo | |
dc.contributor.author | Kettunen, Kerttu | |
dc.contributor.author | Sohlo, Sauli | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-17T12:56:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-17T12:56:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Alajoutsijärvi, K., Kettunen, K., & Sohlo, S. (2018). Shaking the Status Quo : Business Accreditation and Positional Competition. <i>Academy of Management Learning and Education</i>, <i>17</i>(2), 203-225. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2015.0199" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2015.0199</a> | |
dc.identifier.other | CONVID_28176390 | |
dc.identifier.other | TUTKAID_78342 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/60632 | |
dc.description.abstract | Modern business schools exist in a complex world of rankings, ratings, and credentials.
Some argue that in increasingly competitive global higher education markets, signaling
status and quality has actually become more important than having them (Gioia &
Corley, 2002; Trank & Rynes, 2003). For many contemporary business schools, international accreditations have become key means and first steps in pursuing legitimacy
and global status. In this essay, we elaborate in detail on a business school’s international accreditation process, including its motivations and outcomes. We conclude that
while accreditation processes are, at best, fruitful quality improvement exercises, the
inherent motivations stemming from the urge for organizational legitimacy, status, and
reputation should not be overlooked by either the accrediting agencies or business
schools themselves. Ironically, while accreditation agencies (AACSB and EQUIS are
those focused on here) rarely explicitly encourage competition, their exclusivity seems
to generate it between schools that aspire to belong to “the club.” For schools that gain
access to the process, this means that on the flip side of the happy and collaborative
jump in quality there is a much more serious demarcation and revealing redefinition of
the accredited entity’s future supporters, collaborators, partners, and competitors. | fi |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Academy of Management | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Academy of Management Learning and Education | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.subject.other | competition (economics) | |
dc.title | Shaking the Status Quo : Business Accreditation and Positional Competition | |
dc.type | article | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201812115065 | |
dc.contributor.laitos | Kauppakorkeakoulu | fi |
dc.contributor.laitos | School of Business and Economics | en |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Basic or discovery scholarship | fi |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Markkinointi | fi |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Basic or discovery scholarship | en |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Marketing | en |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | |
dc.date.updated | 2018-12-11T13:15:19Z | |
dc.type.coar | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 | |
dc.description.reviewstatus | peerReviewed | |
dc.format.pagerange | 203-225 | |
dc.relation.issn | 1537-260X | |
dc.relation.numberinseries | 2 | |
dc.relation.volume | 17 | |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | |
dc.rights.copyright | © Academy of Management Learning & Education,
2018. | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | fi |
dc.subject.yso | kauppakorkeakoulut | |
dc.subject.yso | akkreditointi | |
dc.subject.yso | laatujärjestelmät | |
dc.subject.yso | kilpailu (talous) | |
dc.format.content | fulltext | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p12204 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p5622 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p2722 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p1866 | |
dc.rights.url | http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en | |
dc.relation.doi | 10.5465/amle.2015.0199 | |
dc.type.okm | A1 | |