AACSB’s failures in guarding the ethical henhouse of business schools

IF 2.8 3区管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT

Management Learning Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI:10.1177/13505076231206558

Richard J Arend

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Abstract

This essay is written to provoke a reaction against the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. When a business school’s administration is criminally convicted of conspiracy to commit fraud and yet it retains its accreditations, something is wrong. Accreditors expect that we enforce ethical standards like “no cheating” on our students but do not enforce those standards on deans, even in cases of publicly-admitted years-long submissions of misrepresentative rankings data. That inconsistency is not lost on us, given the explicit statements such accreditors have about quality, social responsibility, and serving students—all of which are violated in their inactions when their paying members (or their graduates) are involved in harmful behaviors. Management learning is negatively affected as a result; whatever we state in the classroom about ethics is effectively drowned out by what standards are actually enforced in the real world by those who claim to provide legitimacy to our programs and give us a license to operate. So, it is time to address that. An implementable solution is proposed, one which if not adopted should lead to serious consideration of the dissolution of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and any other accreditor who fails to provide the public service expected of it.

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AACSB未能守住商学院的道德鸡舍

这篇文章是为了激起人们对促进大学商学院协会的反对。如果一所商学院的管理层被判犯有共谋欺诈罪，但仍保留其资格，那一定是出了问题。认证机构希望我们对学生执行“不作弊”等道德标准，但不会对院长执行这些标准，即使是在公开承认多年来提交的虚假排名数据的情况下。考虑到这些认证机构在质量、社会责任和服务学生方面的明确声明，我们并没有忽视这种不一致——当他们的付费会员(或毕业生)参与有害行为时，所有这些都在他们的不作为中被违反了。管理学习因此受到负面影响;无论我们在课堂上讲什么道德，都被那些声称为我们的项目提供合法性并给我们经营许可证的人在现实世界中实际执行的标准所淹没。所以，是时候解决这个问题了。提出了一个可行的解决方案，如果不采纳，就应该认真考虑解散“促进大学商学院协会”(Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business)和其他未能提供公众期望的认证机构。

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Management Learning MANAGEMENT-

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6.10

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29.20%

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期刊介绍： The nature of management learning - the nature of individual and organizational learning, and the relationships between them; "learning" organizations; learning from the past and for the future; the changing nature of management, of organizations, and of learning The process of learning - learning methods and techniques; processes of thinking; experience and learning; perception and reasoning; agendas of management learning Learning and outcomes - the nature of managerial knowledge, thinking, learning and action; ethics values and skills; expertise; competence; personal and organizational change