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Knowledge Economy of Faculty Competencies of Indian Business School

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Business School-India; Faculty research competency framework; Knowledge management; Modelling technique exploratory factor analysis

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It is believed that the business schools are driven by its traditional role of teaching from text books based on syllabus that is outdated (Schurman and Louis 2010). The educational system must fulfill the need to create lifelong learners geared to “add-value” in the knowledge-based economy (Bailie 2011). In fact, worldwide, the business schools are struggling hard to maintain their faculty brand. The faculty research output and efforts have also been criticized of late, with some business practitioners arguing that academic research is irrelevant (Bennis and Toole 2005). It is believed by the researchers today that research-based business education is a necessity for improving business practices. The roles of faculty increased from teaching to do research; from researchers to case writers; and from consultants to mentors....

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Singh, A., Ranjan, J., Dubey, G. (2020). Knowledge Economy of Faculty Competencies of Indian Business School. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60013-0_225-1

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