The place and impact of large, elite business schools is hotly debated. Compared to such establishments, little has been written about smaller, regional, community-oriented business schools that serve and interact with their various communities at home or abroad.

Focusing on one of the smaller regional business schools in the UK, and incorporating perspectives from further afield, this book seeks to redress that balance. This local focus enables a more holistic understanding of what really goes on in terms of the complex relationships, practices, challenges and contexts at play in such an arena.

The book, conceived throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, reverberates with a multiplicity of voices, perspectives and narratives, and reflects a process of collaborative autoethnography and critical friendship. It will be of great value to academics, students and others who are interested in optimising the benefits of regional business schools around the world.

Contributes to the debate about the place and impact of business schools. Illustrates and reflects the influence of the digital turn in higher education. Highlights how regional business schools rival and complement the work of their larger counterparts.

Autorentext

Bob MacKenzie is a Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester. For the past 12 years, he has been Commissioning Editor of, and regular contributor to, AMED's quarterly journal Organisations and People (e-O&P online since 2008), and Convenor of the AMED Writers' Group. He has written extensively for an academic, practitioner and policy-making readership.   

Rob Warwick is a Professor in Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Chichester. Before entering academia, he worked with the Department of Health on healthcare policy in a variety of management positions. He has co-edited three editions of e-O&P and is currently co-editing a special edition of the Sage Journal Action Research.  

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Communities and Impact of a Regional Business School - Locating the Discussion, Bob MacKenzie and Rob Warwick.- Chapter 2: Situating A Small University at the Heart of a Regional Economy - 10 Years on From the Witty Review, David Cooper.- Chapter 3: Size Matters - Research in a Small University Business School, Dawn Robins.- Chapter 4: Writing and Research Methodology How this Book was Written, Rob Warwick and Bob MacKenzie.- Chapter 5: Tripartite Relationships Between Students, Employers and the University - A Conversation About Degree Apprenticeships, David Goodman and Paul Kooner-Evans.- Chapter 6: The Challenges of Event Management Education in a Regional Business School - An Autoethnographic Perspective, Wendy Sealy.- Chapter 7: The Communities it Takes to Develop a Leader, Rob Warwick.- Chapter 8: Voices off - Impact and Community in a Business School's Backstage, Bob MacKenzie.- Chapter 9: Personal Approaches to Diversity and Wider Implications, Rob Warwick and Douglas Board.- Chapter 10: Majoring on the Minor Gesture in Collaborative Partnerships, James Traeger.- Chapter 11: The Fragility of Goodness, What Good do we do as Management Educators?, Rob Warwick.- Chapter 12: Uneasy Relationships of the Neo-Liberal and the Commons in Management Education - Colonization and Dancing, Jesse Segers.