42 Satisfaction with External Internships: Do Students Acquire the Professional Skills Necessary to Improve their Employability?; Miguel-Angel Acedo Ramírez, Economics of Business, University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain Esperanza Azcona Ciriza, Economics of Business, University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain Consuelo Riaño Gil, Economics of Business, University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain Francisc...

Enrolments in undergraduate economics programs have been falling constantly since the early 1990s. This trend coincides with the increasing popularity of business and management degrees. Consequently, the major activity of many, if not most economics departments and schools in Australia is service teaching of introductory economics to first year business and management students. Such service te...

Purpose Serious games are playing an increasingly significant role across a range of educational contexts. Business focused serious games can provide students with an authentic learning experience and their use has been increasingly taken up by business school faculty, including those delivering entrepreneurship education. This paper seeks to evaluate the impact of participation in a serious bu...

There is an increasing realization of the difficulties professionals in innovation-related jobs face in bridging the interface of technology and business. Further, the use of technology for business innovation increasingly involves technologies transferred across businesses or from universities to industry, either through licensing or engagement of entrepreneurial enterprises, requiring coordin...

At Harvard Business School, like at many other professional schools around the country, students’ learning experience requires limits on the number of students in a class. This creates an interesting allocation problem for school administrations: students need a seat in several classes, and classes have limited capacity. In addressing this problem, all schools have some e¢ ciency and fairness o...

There are plenty of theoretical studies addressing how active-based practices and methodologies influence university students’ level of performance. However, there is a scarcity of works that bring empirical evidence to sustain the existence of a positive link between the students’ involvement in experience-based learning methods and their academic results. The aim of this paper is to examine t...

business sustainability in all dimensions of economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental (egsee) performance is gaining acceptance as many global stock exchanges either encourage or require their listed companies to issue sustainability reports and investors worldwide demand sustainability performance information. more than 8, 000 companies worldwide are disclosing various egsee di...

Effective Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce) education for students in such disciplines as Management Information Systems, Accounting and Marketing is paramount. This is because organisations globally need people who are skilled in e-Commerce, from a technical and/or organisational perspective, so that the firms can take advantage of such technologies as the Web. The challenge for business and e-...

Description: Two significant factors combine to drive the phenomenon of e-Business. Competition constantly motivates companies in their marketplaces, while rapidly developing information technologies offer new opportunities and challenges. For Mike Papazoglou and Piet Ribbers, both business and technology are integral to e-Business. They demonstrate here how a solid understanding of business, o...