EDUNIVERSAL 2 nd World Con vention Cape Town, South Africa, October 26, 2009

EDUNIVERSAL 2nd World Convention

Cape Town, South Africa, October 26, 2009

Overview of Management Education in Central and East Europe

October 26, 2009, Cape Town, Dr. Virginijus Kundrotas

Management education in CEECEEMAN Survey on BS responses to Global Crisis, July-August 2009

• Perception of the Global crisis• Changes in the curriculum• Changes in pedagogy• Changes in funding of study programs and

reseach• Changes in marketing


Perception of the Global crisis

• Business Schools perceive the global crisis as a phenomenon with multiple roots and causes;

• Many Schools believe that the main reason of the crisis is lack of responsible leadership and to big focus on the bottom-line


Changes in the curriculum

• Tendency to include courses of more general nature as well as those related to Business ethics and CSR in the Undergraduate programs;

• Focus on the Leadership and Turnaround management in the MBA programs;

• Focus on Leadership, Transparency and Sustainable financial management development in the Executive MBA programs;

• Focus towards innovations, integration, intrapreneurship development and turnaround management in the Corporate programs


Changes in pedagogy

• Tendency to increase use of case teaching, especially in MBA programs;

• Development of the new cases, based on the local companies issues;

• Tendency towards more interactive learning methods


Changes in funding of study programs and reseach

• Increase of institutional funding for research, leading towards innovation, integration and entrepreneurial thinking;

• Institutional suport for development of new degree and corporate programs;

• Decline of external funding for research.


Changes in marketing

• Tuition and tuition discount levels remain relatively constant;

• Business schools are increasing institutional marketing expenses with the goal to decrease it next year;

• Program marketing after increase last year is decreasing with the tendency to continue to reduce those costs


Optimistic view towards the future

Most of the Business Schools believe that they would be able to survive even if the tendency of declining enrollment and lower financial performance continue


CourtshipCourtship

InfancyInfancy

AffairAffair

Go-goGo-go

Infant Infant MortalityMortality

Founders Founders TrapTrap

AdolescenceAdolescenceDivorceDivorce

PrimePrime

StableStable

AristocracyAristocracy

Witch HuntWitch Hunt

BureaucracyBureaucracy

DeatDeathh

Unfulfilled Unfulfilled EntrepreneEntrepreneurur

Premature Premature AgingAging

Organizational Lifecycles, Organizational Lifecycles, Dr. Ichak AdizesDr. Ichak Adizes

Associations supporting development of Management education in CEE

International associationsCEEMANBMDANational associationsRABE (Russia)Forum (Poland)Czech Association of MBA Schools (Czech Republic)UAMDBE ,Ukrainian Association for Management

Development and Business Education (Ukraine),Etc.


CEEMAN Network

• Established in 1993• 170 members (institutional, corporate,

individual, exchange)• 43 countries around the globe


CEEMAN Value Platform

• Celebrates diversity, respect for culture and values

• Fosters creativity and innovation• Promotes context and environment-driven

mission, results achieved and impact made


Programs and Activities

Educating Educators IMTA – International Management Teachers Academy

CEEMAN Annual Conferences, Deans and Directors MeetingsStrengthening schools leadership capabilities

Managing Business School seminarsDeveloping operational excellence

Program Management SeminarsAccreditation – CEEMAN IQACEEMAN ExEd eventsInternational researchCase writing competitions and supportPublishingNetworking with networks and learning partners


IMTA – International Management Teachers Academy

• A major European faculty development program• A new generation of management educators for a new

generation of business leaders– 347 participants – 113 institutions– 32 countries– IMTA Alumni Association

• IMTA Educational Material Development Program– Case writing module– Research and publishing module


CEEMAN IQA International Quality Accreditation

A mark of excellence, locally and globally

• Focus on mission relevant to specific environment and context

• Abilities and resources to pursue and achieve school’s mission and focus

• Results achieved, innovations and impact made


CEEMAN in global initiatives

among the first signatoriesleading PRME working group on poverty reduction

founding partnerglobal student competition on

open innovation and sustainability


Baltic Management Development Association (BMDA) was established by the end of 2002 as the initiative of universities and business schools as

well as individuals – professors of management sciences and business

professionals from the Baltic countries.


MISSIONTo develop management as a science

and profession promoting high professional and educational

standards and their understanding in the Baltic region.

To create favourable environment to fulfil individual development needs of

the Association’s members


ACTIVITIES

• Annual Conferences;• Round-table discussions on various

issues in Higher Education;• Influencing Higher education policy in

the Baltic countries• Faculty and staff development

seminars;• Research activities;• Other


18 COUNTRIES (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Ukraine, USA)

Around 60 MEMBERS Institutional, Individual, CorporateOctober 26, 2009, Cape Town, Dr.

Virginijus Kundrotas

MEMBERSHIP STATUS

• Baltic Journal of Management was launched on 23rd March 2005 as a joint project of Emerald (UK) and BMDA

• In 2008 BJM has been accepted into Thomson Reuters' (ISI) Science Index

• BJM is the only journal that actively encourages dialogue between Baltic management researchers and supports research from the region. It acts as a forum to encourage dialogue between East and West.

• The journal seeks to highlight the best practice and research of developed and rapidly growing countries in the Baltic region.

• It encourages well-written articles with the focus on interdisciplinary, international and comparative standpoints on contemporary management issues

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BJM – a bridge between Eastern and Western management research


Emerald/BMDA Borderless Management Research Award 2009/2010 for Young researchers

Open to:doctoral students in last year of their programme any researcher under 38 years of age may be co-authored with senior faculty


Get more benefits being together

Get more benefits being together

Promoter of the Region

Networking opportunities

provider

Information provider

BMDA IS

Competence provider

AssociationsCorporate

IndividualInstitutional

But the main reason to be optimistic is.......................................

Creative peopleOctober 26, 2009, Cape Town, Dr. Virginijus Kundrotas


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