Real Learning Opportunities at Business School and Beyond

Real Learning Opportunities at Business School and Beyond

Advances in Business Education and Training Volume 2 Series Editor: Piet Van den Bossche, Department of Educational Research and Development, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Associate Editors: Wim Gijselaers, Department of Educational Research and Development, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Richard G. Milter, MBA Fellows Program, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, USA Scope of the series Advances in Business Education & Training is a Book Series to foster advancement in the field of Business Education and Training. It serves as an international forum for scholarly and state-of-the-art research and development into all aspects of Business Education and Training. It will not only publish empirical studies but also stimulate theoretical discussions and address practical implications. Also reviews of important developments in the field are encouraged. The editors welcome contributions in which a line of reasoning is illustrated with experiments, design-based studies, best practices, and theory development. In addition, the editors encourage submission of new ideas for business education and training, papers that are not necessarily empirical in nature, but describe interesting new educational tools, approaches or solutions. The book series will include both edited volumes comprised of peer-reviewed articles as authored books. Each volume is dedicated to a specific theme in business education, and will be complemented with articles that can be a resource to advance business education and training. For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/8104

Peter Daly David Gijbels Editors Real Learning Opportunities at Business School and Beyond 123

Editors Prof. Peter Daly Business Communic. & Language Studies EDHEC Business School 58 Rue du Port 59046 Lille France peter.daly@edhec.edu Dr. David Gijbels University of Antwerp Inst. Education & Information Sciences Venusstraat 35 2000 Antwerpen Belgium david.gijbels@ua.ac.be ISBN 978-90-481-2972-0 e-isbn 978-90-481-2973-7 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2973-7 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009929294 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents Preface... Contributors... vii ix Part I Real Learning Opportunities in Business Schools and Beyond: An Introduction 1 Cops for Cops: An Innovative Use of Communities of Practice in an MBA Program Offered for Police Officers... 5 Kathleen Hanold Watland 2 Chinese Students Perceptions of the Intercultural Competence of Their Tutors in PBL... 17 Klaes Eringa and Yu Huei-Ling 3 Business Learning in Large Groups: Experimental Results of Problem-Based Learning... 39 Ángeles Gallego and Cristóbal Casanueva 4 Business Students Self-Theories, Goal Orientations, and Achievement Motivations... 53 Dirk T. Tempelaar, Sybrand Schim van der Loeff, and Wim H. Gijselaers 5 Self-Directed Learning Readiness, Individualism Collectivism and Adult Student Learning in Online Environment: Development and Test of a Causal Model... 71 Tim Hudson and Nagarajan Ramamoorthy 6 Reflections on Reflections: The Use of Logs in Student Work Placement to Support Business Learning... 81 Tim Friesner and Adam Palmer v

vi Contents 7 The Clicker Project: A Scholarly Approach to Technology Integration... 97 Danielle Morin, Jennifer D.E. Thomas, Janette Barrington, Linda Dyer, and Maria Boutchkova 8 Business Entrepreneurs Mindsets on Their Enterprises Business Model...109 Christopher J. Brown and Diane Proudlove 9 Does Exposure to Ideas About Morally Leading Change Make a Difference in Students Leadership Aspirations?...127 Michael K. McCuddy 10 Making Sense of Experiential Learning in Management Education.. 147 Davar Rezania and Leslie Blyth 11 Knowledge Production and Generating Value: Taking the Dual Hurdle of Rigor and Relevance in an Entrepreneurial Way...163 Thomas Thijssen Part II Best Practice in Business Education 12 Global Exposure in Leading MBA Programs...179 Robert Dyer, Marilyn Liebrenz-Himes, and Salah Hassan 13 Innovation in Cross Border Learning...195 Christine Cope Pence and Catharina Wulf 14 Master Thesis Supervision...211 Judith H. Semeijn, Janjaap Semeijn, and Kees J. Gelderman 15 Redesigning and Marketing a German Business Communication Course...223 Hans Verboven 16 Getting Real? Using Reality TV as a Memorable Way of Introducing Semi-authentic Business Interaction to Students of Business Communication...237 Jonathan Clifton Index...245

Preface Business Education is constantly looking for right practices to develop the future leaders, and business enterprises want to help graduates to become true experts. The book series Advances in Business Education & Training wants to contribute to this search and foster advancement in the field of business education and training. It is an international forum for scholarly and state-of-the-art research and development into all aspects of business education and training. In this way, this book series wants to be one of the platforms of the Edineb-network (www.edineb.net) which brings together professionals in educational institutions and corporate learning centers, who strive for innovation in developing learning environments. The present book Real Learning Opportunities at Business School and Beyond, the second in this series, is edited by Peter Daly and David Gijbels. We want to thank them and all the authors for presenting a range of interesting and thought-provoking ideas. This book comprises two major sections: research into real learning opportunities in business schools and beyond (Part I) and some best practices in business education (Part II). Piet Van den Bossche Series editor Wim Gijselaers and Rick Milter Associate series editors vii

Contributors Janette Barrington Centre for Teaching and Learning Services, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4B 1R6 Maria Boutchkova Department of Finance, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8 Christopher J. Brown Innovative Management Solutions Consultancy Ltd., Golden Row, Whipsnade Green, Whipsnade Beds, LU6 2LQ, UK; Department of Marketing and Enterprise, Business School, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, United Kingdom Cristóbal Casanueva Departamento de Administración de Empresas y Marketing, Escuela Universitaria de Estudios Empresariales, University of Seville, Ramón y Cajal, 41018, Seville, Spain Jonathan Clifton Department of Applied Linguistics, Université Charles-de-Gaulle (Lille 3), 14, place Bodart-Timal, BP 447, 59058 Roubaix, France Linda Dyer Department of Management, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1M8 Robert Dyer School of Business, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA Klaes Eringa Research group in Service Studies, School of Graduate Studies, Stenden University, Rengerslaan 8, 8917 DD Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Tim Friesner Faculty of Business, Arts and Humanities, University of Chichester, UK ix

x Contributors Angeles Gallego Business School of the University of Seville, Spain Cees J. Gelderman School of Management, Open Universiteit Nederland, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT Heerlen, The Netherlands Tim Hudson School of Business, University of Houston-Victoria, 3007 North Ben Wilson, Victoria, TX 77901, USA Michael K. McCuddy College of Business Administration, Valparaiso University, 1909 Chapel Drive, Valparaiso, IN 46383, USA Danielle Morin Department of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8 Adam Palmer Faculty of Business, Arts and Humanities, University of Chichester, UK Christine Cope Penc University of California, Riverside, A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521 USA Nagarajan Ramamoorthy Associate Professor of Management, University of Houston-Victoria, 14000 University Boulevard, Sugar Land, TX 77479, USA Davar Rezania School of Business, Grant MacEwan College, 10700-104 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 4S2 Judith H. Semeijn School of Management, Open Universiteit Nederland, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT Heerlen, The Netherlands Janjaap Semeijn School of Management, Open Universiteit Nederland, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT Heerlen, The Netherlands Dirk T. Tempelaar Department of Quantitative Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University, Tongersestraat 53, 6211 LM Maastricht, The Netherlands Thomas J.P. Thijssen Knowledge Centre Hospitality Business, Saxion Hospitality Business School, Handelskade 75, 7417 DH Deventer, The Netherlands

Contributors xi Jennifer D.E. Thomas Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038, USA Hans Verboven Department of International Business Communication, Faculty of Economics, Antwerp University, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium Dr. Kathleen H. Watland Saint Xavier University, Graham School of Management, 3825 West 103 rd Street, Chicago, IL 60655, USA Catharina Wulf Associate Professor, Department of Management and Strategy, ESG Paris Business School, 25 rue Saint Ambroise, 75011 Paris, France Hueiling Yu-Klamer Master in International Service Management, School of Graduate Studies, Stenden University, Rengerslaan 8, 8900 CG Leeuwarden, The Netherlands