Management Education by the French Grandes Ecoles de Commerce: Past, Present, and an Uncertain Future
本文综述了法国高等商学院管理教育的历史与现状，分析了国际化、认证等压力下课程与管理者实际能力需求的错位，并基于1582门课程数据指出其可能丧失传统优势、加剧不匹配。
We present a comprehensive briefing on the past and present of a business educational culture that is significantly different in ethos and structure to the widely known systems in the United States and United Kingdom; namely, the history and culture of the French Grandes Ecoles de Commerce. We follow with a brief reminder of extant literature on the utility of business education and its seeming misalignment with the competencies and skills specified by practitioners. Key pressures and trends on and within this system, such as internationalization, accreditation, and a greater emphasis on publications are identified and discussed. We then combine these threads in a partial replication of the work of Dierdorff and Rubin (2006; Rubin & Dierdorff, 2009). Specifically, we present collated information on 1582 classes from 542 programs at the top Grandes Ecoles de Commerce alongside further secondary data and then analyze it in respect of alignment with Rubin and Dierdorff’s identified behavioral competencies. We argue that the outcome of these pressures may well be that inherent and historical strengths of great value are being discarded, and that the degree of irrelevance and misalignment between educational provision and required managerial competence will stay the same or even get worse.