The Theory/Applications Balance in Management Pedagogy: Where Do We Stand?

Business schools are expected to be "professional" in the sense that their mission is primarily to prepare people to practice their skills in the business world. Various critics, however, claim that management professors overemphasize theory and research and neglect the practice and applications students need to transfer classroom theory to the world of practice. This study compared an earlier sample with a more recent sample of Academy of Management members concerning the relative emphasis they believed should be placed on theory and applications in management pedagogy and the techniques they used to bring applications into the classroom. Current respondents believed that more emphasis should be placed on applications than the earlier respondents. An unexpected finding, however, was that the more recent respondents reported a lower mean usage of pedagogical techniques that are appropriate for developing students' ability to apply course concepts than the previous group. Possible reasons for these incongruent findings are discussed as well as the implications for management pedagogy.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

Personal learning: learning and performance support systems

The face of learning has changed. Over the past two decades, learning has evolved from traditional instructor-led classroom training to distance learning to e-learning to virtual learning environments and to massive open online courses. And, the face of learners has changed as well.On n\u2019apprend plus comme avant. L\u2019apprentissage a chang\ue9 en vingt ans, passant de l\u2019enseignement classique, offert par un professeur, au t\ue9l\ue9apprentissage, puis aux environnements d\u2019apprentissage virtuel et, enfin, aux cours en ligne ouverts \ue0 tous. Et le visage de ceux qui ont la fi\ue8vre d\u2019apprendre a chang\ue9 lui aussi.Also available in French: Le climat id\ue9al pour apprendre: l\ue0 o\uf9 s\u2019entrechoquent les r\ue9alit\ue9s sociales, techniques et \ue9conomiquesNRC publication: Ye

[La gouvernance des PME par les réseaux : le cas des PME de biotechnologie en France]

National audienceCes dernières années ont été marquées par un accroissement substantiel des PME (petites et moyennes entreprises) "high tech". Différentes analyses par pays attestent de la vitalité de ce secteur. En France, une centaine de PME de biotechnologie ont été créées ces trois dernières années, ce qui correspond à environ un tiers de toutes les PME dans ce domaine. Basé sur une étude approfondie des origines et du développement de 60 PME françaises de biotechnologie, cet article montre que la diversité des entreprises françaises de biotechnologie peut se résumer à deux modèles d'entreprise