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Comment: The rankings game: Reflections on Devinney, Dowling and Perm‐Ajchariyawong
Author(s) -
Hopwood Anthony G.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
european management review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.784
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1740-4762
pISSN - 1740-4754
DOI - 10.1057/emr.2008.21
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , feature (linguistics) , marketing , business , sociology , public relations , political science , statistics , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy
Commenting on an analysis of the Financial Times MBA rankings, consideration is given to the emergence of an interest in such institutional rankings and the variety of factors involved in their present prominence. Specific attention is given to the pressures for business schools to manipulate the rankings and some of the forms that this takes. Although rankings are likely to remain a feature of the MBA environment for the foreseeable future, consideration is nevertheless given to alternative ways of providing potential MBA students with more useful sources of information.