The Booming Business of Management Education in Russia

Abstract

Management education is a booming business in Russia these days, with more than 1,000 business schools and training centres having been established in the past couple of years in Moscow alone. Focuses on the way management education is evolving in Russia. First presents an overview of the management education system that existed during the communist period as background. Follows with a discussion of how political, social and economic changes have influenced management education since 1988. Next presents the latest developments in management education. Topics include the types of business schools which have been created, as well as the characteristics of their faculty, programmes and curricula and teaching methodologies. Concludes with a discussion of the future of management education, and presents a pessimistic and an optimistic scenario of the potential impact of management education on the economy, politics and society in the new Russia.

Citation

Puffer, S.M. (1993), "The Booming Business of Management Education in Russia", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 46-59. https://doi.org/10.1108/02621719310038962