Accreditation sickness in the consumption of business education: The vacuum in AACSB standard setting

Management Learning

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 411-420

  Lowrie, Anthony ^a   Willmott, Hugh ^b  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AACSB; Accreditation; Peer review

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349330413     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507609335851     Document Type: Article

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