Stories Business Deans Tell about Successful Journeys to AACSB Accreditation
Joe Wallis, Lindsey Kemp, and Vazeerjan Begum
American University of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
Fang Zhao
RMIT University, Australia
Volume 18: 2023, pp. 37-58; ABSTRACT
Based on an organizational myth perspective, it was expected that the stories Business Deans tell about the journeys their Schools have taken to The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation, would follow the leaderist pattern of “hero quest myths”. However, qualitative content analysis of 16 stories, written by Business Deans and submitted to the AACSB exchange blog (DATE), indicated these were presented as leaderless quests. Among the reasons proposed for this surprising finding were the bias within academe against narrow attribution of credit for leadership and the space the formal silence about the leader’s role allows for the construction of a leader legacy from the informal stories told about this by others who worked with them.
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