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  • 1.  Financial Times Rankings

    Posted 01-28-2009 03:03

    For those of you whose institutions are either in the europhoria associated with being overrated by the FT and the doldrums of being underrated, perhaps the attached links to a recent set of articles in the European Management Review on the Financial Times rankings will help you deal with it (Please pass it onto your Deans and Administrators).

    Tim

    "The Financial Times business schools ranking: What quality is this signal of quality?" Timothy Devinney, Grahame R Dowling and Nidthida Perm-Ajchariyawong (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/emr/journal/v5/n4/pdf/emr200814a.pdf)
    Eur Manage Rev 5: 195-208; doi:10.1057/emr.2008.14

    "The rankings game: Reflections on Devinney, Dowling and Perm-Ajchariyawong", Anthony G Hopwood
    (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/emr/journal/v5/n4/pdf/emr200821a.pdf)
    Eur Manage Rev 5: 209-214; doi:10.1057/emr.2008.21

    "Right signals to applicants, wrong incentives for deans: business school rankings and the challenges to management education", Vladimir A Mau and Alexander V Mansilya-Kruz (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/emr/journal/v5/n4/pdf/emr200828a.pdf)
    Eur Manage Rev 5: 215-218; doi:10.1057/emr.2008.28

    "The Financial Times business schools ranking: What quality is this signal of quality?", Ilia D Dichev
    (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/emr/journal/v5/n4/pdf/emr200823a.pdf)
    Eur Manage Rev 5: 219-224; doi:10.1057/emr.2008.23

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