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Market transition 'one MBA at a time': institutionalization of management education in Postsocialism
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Abstract Can institutionalization of organizational fields be led from the outside? What consequences do new organizational fields have for large scale social change? Examining the institutionalization of management education field in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of Communism provides an opportu... view more
Can institutionalization of organizational fields be led from the outside? What consequences do new organizational fields have for large scale social change? Examining the institutionalization of management education field in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of Communism provides an opportune research site to address both of these questions. Using a variety of qualitative data including content analysis of websites and an open-ended survey of administrators, we outline the coercive, normative and mimetic processes that have contributed to field institutionalization. We point to the consequential role of international actors and East-West networks and argue that this institutionalization has been largely led from the outside. Moreover, as sites of market-based knowledge diffusion, often created with a goal to facilitate postsocialist transformations, management schools have been crucial in helping build capitalism from the bottom up, one MBA at a time.... view less
Keywords
transformation; studies (academic); post-socialist country; network; Europe; Eastern Europe; training; management; market; business economics; social change; institutionalization
Classification
Training, Teaching and Studying, Professional Organizations of Economics
Business Administration
Method
qualitative empirical
Free Keywords
Market Transition; Central and Eastern Europe; Institutionalism; Management Education; East-West Networks
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
18 p.
Series
Working Paper Series of the Research Network 1989, 5
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications