Sustainability practices and student satisfaction in business schools: the role of notoriety and internationalization

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Intangible Capital Pub Date : 2023-02-21 DOI:10.3926/ic.2164

Llorenç Bagur‐Femenías, Josep Llach, Òscar Elvira Benito, Màrian Buil Fabregà

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Abstract

Purpose: The objective of this work is to determine whether the effort of business schools in terms of sustainability policies improves student satisfaction through boosting the internationalization of the institution and its notoriety.Design/methodology/approach: The sample considered in this study consisted of 272 Spanish business school graduates. The data was collected via online survey during the first quarter of 2020. To validate the hypotheses and the model, structural equations modelling was performed using robust method.Findings: A commitment of the business schools to sustainability not only has an ethical component but also improves their positioning, leading to greater competitiveness.Practical implications: The results obtained point to sustainability practices facilitating entry processes involving joint agreements among business schools and leading to clear accreditations and/or sustainability policies.Originality/value: The present research focuses on those variables included in the scarcely investigated external factors that should be considered to maintain high satisfaction among business school students.

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商学院的可持续性实践和学生满意度:声誉和国际化的作用

目的:本研究的目的是确定商学院在可持续性政策方面的努力是否通过提高机构的国际化和知名度来提高学生满意度。设计/方法/方法:本研究考虑的样本包括272名西班牙商学院毕业生。这些数据是在2020年第一季度通过在线调查收集的。为了验证假设和模型，采用鲁棒方法进行了结构方程建模。研究发现:商学院对可持续发展的承诺不仅具有道德成分，还能改善它们的定位，从而提高竞争力。实际意义:获得的结果指向可持续性实践，促进了涉及商学院联合协议的入学流程，并导致明确的认证和/或可持续性政策。原创性/价值:目前的研究集中在那些几乎没有被调查的外部因素中包含的变量，这些因素应该被认为是商学院学生保持高满意度的因素。

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Intangible Capital MANAGEMENT-

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1.50

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33 weeks

期刊介绍： The aim of Intangible Capital is to publish theoretical and empirical articles that contribute to contrast, extend and build theories that contribute to advance our understanding of phenomena related with management, and the management of intangibles, in organizations, from the perspectives of strategic management, human resource management, psychology, education, IT, supply chain management and accounting. The scientific research in management is grounded on theories developed from perspectives taken from a diversity of social sciences. Intangible Capital is open to publish articles that, from sociology, psychology, economics and industrial organization contribute to the scientific development of management and organizational science. Intangible Capital publishes scholar articles that contribute to contrast existing theories, or to build new theoretical approaches. The contributions can adopt confirmatory (quantitative) or explanatory (mainly qualitative) methodological approaches. Theoretical essays that enhance the building or extension of theoretical approaches are also welcome. Intangible Capital selects the articles to be published with a double bind, peer review system, following the practices of good scholarly journals. Intangible Capital publishes three regular issues per year following an open access policy. On-line publication allows to reduce publishing costs, and to make more agile the process of reviewing and edition. Intangible Capital defends that open access publishing fosters the advance of scientific knowledge, making it available to everyone. Intangible Capital publishes articles in English, Spanish and Catalan.