Editorial🔗

HIGHER EDUCATION IN MANAGEMENT AND ITS LEGITIMACY🔗

LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR EN GESTIÓN Y SU LEGITIMIDAD🔗

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Author(s)🔗

Emilio Díez-de-Castro , Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

https://doi.org/10.35564/jmbe.2020.0019

Abstract🔗

Organizational legitimacy is an important consideration for the growth of private and public higher education. Unlike most state-sponsored institutions, the social acceptance of the private sector model is based on its ability to justify its own right to exist. But if private organizations must demonstrate their right to exist, institutional pressure forces public institutions to also demonstrate their legitimacy. Many of the considerations listed below are universities challenges and calls for action. Each of them represents issues that will partially contribute to their legitimacy. Now, business schools would be responsible for leading the implementation and development of university legitimacy, only to compensate their indifference on other occasions, such as, for example, when the movement for quality and excellence in university management began.

Keywords
higher education, business education, management, legitimacy

Resumen🔗

La legitimidad organizacional es una consideración importante en el crecimiento de la educación superior privada y pública. A diferencia de la mayoría de las instituciones patrocinadas por el Estado, la aceptación social del modelo del sector privado se basa en su capacidad para justificar su propio derecho a existir. Pero si los privados deben demostrar su derecho a existir, la presión institucional obliga a las instituciones públicas a demostrar también su legitimidad. Muchas de las consideraciones que se recogen a continuación son desafíos y llamadas a la actuación de las universidades. Cada una de ellas representan temas que parcialmente van a contribuir a su legitimación. A los centros de empresariales le correspondería liderar la puesta en marcha y el desarrollo de la legitimidad universitaria, aunque sólo fuera por compensar su indiferencia en otras ocasiones, como, por ejemplo, cuando se inició el movimiento por la calidad y la excelencia en la gestión universitaria.

Palabras clave
educación superior, educación en negocios, gestión, legitimidad

Received
23 October 2020

Accepted
1 December 2020

Copyright
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.

Citation🔗

Díez-de-Castro, E. (2020). Higher education in management and its legitimacy. Journal of Management and Business Education, 3(3), 181-192. https://doi.org/10.35564/jmbe.2020.0019

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