The institutionalization of the international accreditation in brazilian business and management schools: determinant factors, perspectives and challenges
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1983-4535.2018v11n2p222Abstract
The international accreditation of a higher education institution (HEI) grants it a seal of education quality that is internationally recognized. It is obtained after a relatively long process of disclousure of the teaching and learning processes and of the impact of its research and professional action. The process of international accreditation causes an institutional change in the HEI in order to adapt to the accrediting agency’s rules. This research aims at analyzing the determinante factors, the challenges and the perspectives of the institutionalization of international accreditation in Business and Management Schools (BMS) in Brazil. This work is based on the institutional theory and the strategy adopted was the multiple case study, which was carried out in five Brazilian BMS, all of which are members of AACSB. Fifteen people that were involved in the accreditation process were interviewed. It became evident that isomorphic pressures are present in the reasons that motivate the decision to implement the accreditation process; the coercive and the mimetic pressures with a greater number of observations; and the normative pressures, with a lower number of observations. This research also identified the challenges of each stage of the institutionalization process, besides the perspectives related to the strategy of international accreditation. Finally, it was mapped in which stages of institutionalization the studied BMS are.Downloads
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2018-06-11
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