Volume 03 Issue 2 (Feb 2017)
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Developing future employees for new and emerging constructs of business: Are current educational models of teaching business up to the task?
On a recent trip to Brazil, one of the authors encountered a different model of recruitment and organizational development for an emerging startup software company called Chaordic. The author was impressed with the passion and excitement of the company spokesperson, Anderson Nie…
Revisiting Ghoshal's views on the implications of bad management theory - a systems view of moral governance and managerial practice
This paper revisits Ghoshal’s views (2005, 1996) on the implications of bad management theory for managerial practice. In particular, it examines the persistence of assumptions underpinning moral governance and associated managerial practices in organizations, despit…
University's knowledge transfer capacity - organisational structures and regional cooperation
The paper presents the analysis of universities' potential for knowledge transfer to the business environment. The first part of the paper shows the analysis of university organisational units related to various parts of the innovation process. Each stage of the process crea…
Leadership: the linchpin of effective institutional partnerships
The Ontario post-secondary environment is divided between colleges and universities, each with differing mandates. While there is cooperation, this divide has led to competition and conflict between the sectors. The University of Guelph-Humber is a partnership between a co…
Some lessons learned in establishing the University of Rwanda
The author spent five months in Rwanda as a Strategic Advisor to the Ministry of Education’s Task Force for creating a single national university by amalgamating the existing seven public institutions of higher education located in various regions of the country, and in th…