The Financial Times business schools ranking: What quality is this signal of quality?

We suggest that the annual rankings of business schools have acquired a legitimacy that unduly defines the organizational field in a manner that makes it difficult and risky for most schools to manage to this measure of business school quality and positional status. To illustrate this we analyze the...

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Published in:European management review 2008-12, Vol.5 (4), p.195-208
Main Authors: Devinney, Timothy, Dowling, Grahame R, Perm-Ajchariyawong, Nidthida
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to information
Analysis
Business
Business schools
Business studies
Classification
Comparative advantage
Competition
Competitive advantage
Financial Times
Großbritannien
Legitimacy
MBA rankings
Organization theory
Quality standards
Ranking
Ratings & rankings
Schools
Statistical analysis
Students
Studies
Validity
Wirtschaftshochschule
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