Teaching Management Control: An Analysis of Top MBA Programmes Worldwide

Xavier Sales

Xavier Sales

EADA Business School, Barcelona, Spain

Volume 15: 2020, pp. 191-212; ABSTRACT

This study uses empirical data to explore the pedagogical aspects of management control teaching in the Financial Times top 100 Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes. Professors teaching the discipline are surveyed on six pedagogical issues: content covered, teaching/learning methods, student’s assessment, teaching/learning materials, instructors’ appointment, and weight of the course and challenges. The study finds (1) a higher incidence of the provision of management control topics in MBA programmes than what analysis of curricula would suggest; (2) a uniformity in management control topics taught despite a lack of any specific theoretical framework; (3) a dominance of case discussion as a teaching method despite its critics; (4) professors in American business schools have a higher level of autonomy than European professors in organizing courses; and (5) the outlook of management control teaching in MBA programmes seems to be better in European rather than American business schools.

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