EDAMBA, or the European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management & Business Administration, is an international non-profit association operational in about 28 countries. EDAMBA's purpose is to promote shared ideas, values, evaluation criteria, standards, and applications to evaluate and magnify the quality of doctoral education by the exchange of experiences and partnerships in a global network. EDAMBA members are dedicated to building, sharing initiatives, delivering excellence while comprehending, fostering collaboration, diversity, and community building.
EDAMBA strives to develop and ensure the highest standards in doctoral education in the domains of management and business studies by:
- Strengthening, improving, and promoting best practices through codes of conduct of the most eminent order
- Providing a European and universal network for the exchange of information and discussion of ideas among doctoral directors, programs, and schools
- Proposing a global platform to promote collaborative efforts of our members and enable new initiatives in research and practice across all borders
- Helping participating doctoral programs worldwide to continuously enhance quality and attain excellence by building on a European tradition of collective dialogue to:
1. Generate global reflections on diversity
2. Social and liberal aims
3. Inculcation of intellectual capacities and personal sensibilities of the public and moral responsibility of doctoral supervisors, students, and graduates.
About AACSB International
European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration (EDAMBA) and the AACSB International (AACSB), a Global Doctoral Education Collaboration, are the international landscape of business doctoral degree programs. Instituted in 1916, AACSB is the world's most comprehensive business education alliance, uniting educators, learners, and businesses to produce the succeeding generation of prominent leaders.
AACSB and EDAMBA Collaboration's benefits
Business doctoral programs traverse innovations to create impact while meeting business and business education demands. In 2019, they examined business schools again to collect opinions and insight on global business doctoral programs challenges. The report highlights the following findings:
- Shifting career aspirations among doctoral candidates
- Variations in theses, dissertations, and supervisory models globally
- Teaching methods
- Program delivery models, including online experiences
- Coveted outcomes and indicators of success in doctoral degree programs
- The outlook of doctoral degrees in business education
1. Provides insights into the latest trend in education:
Doctoral programs are an indispensable part of the business education aspect. It equips business school faculty and researchers with executives who guide the world's industries and economies. This global collaboration offers insight into the most nocturnal biases about these programs allowing business schools and higher education to complete with innovating and enhancing doctoral education for society's interest.
2. Refine business education:
Doctoral education is developing, a reality further emphasized by the recent impacts of COVID-19. The Global Doctoral Education Collaboration allows business schools to consider changes in demographics, evolving definitions of the doctoral thesis, supervisory models, and dissertation formats. It approaches influencing research as they set their programs to advance the future of business education.
3. Global reach:
As the world's largest business education alliance, AACSB International connects educators, students, and businesses to achieve a common goal and create the next contemporaries of great leaders. Corresponding with the highest standards of merit and supremacy since 1916, AACSB provides quality assurance in business education, professional development and knowledge, services to over 1,700 institution members, and more than 850 accredited business schools in 100 countries.
4. Connectivity
When educational experts and business organizations become a part of the AACSB and EDAMBA Collaboration, they are members of a movement that improves the nature of business education worldwide. This Global Doctoral Education Collaboration connects, shares, and invigorates innovation and quality throughout the affiliate network and the business community. The collective strength of the organization is found in various perspectives, a global mindset, and a commitment to making a difference.
5. Diversity and Inclusion
The core values of diversity and inclusion convoke all members, volunteer leaders, and staff at AACSB to represent diverse and whole communities. They do that by learning, striving for full participation and implementing it within business education and society. The belief in business schools' positive societal influence articulates the shared commitments across AACSB to diversity and incorporation in collegiate business education.
Visit the EDAMBA website to learn more about the Global Doctoral Education Collaboration