This volume highlights issues facing business management education. It outlines environmental issues; different business education models; the competency-based model for business skills and pedagogical strategies to develop specific competencies; the balanced approach to education combining teaching, research, and continuing education; the role of corporate universities; emerging models of knowledge cities and challenges posed by them for academic institutions; and the perception of the quality of business education of students, professors, administrators, and employers. Additional chapters address the role of education in improving business performance, the role of honors education programs, teaching business and cyber ethics to students, the market value of current and potential graduates, the role and importance of internationalization and strategic alliances in improving the quality of education, the common characteristics of successful business schools, and business schools in various contexts, focusing on the Middle East and Africa.
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