Business Schools in the Context of the National Higher Education System

Abstract

The business schools examined in this thesis are embedded in their own national higher education systems, each pursuing its own purposes and its own national policies of higher education. In order to conduct qualitative comparisons between American, German, and Swedish business schools, it is necessary to take the context of the particular national education system into consideration.⁶⁹ Different types of higher-education institutions and organizational structures have become institutionalized in each system, heavily influencing their mode of change. In the following section, a brief analysis of the three higher-education systems will be presented, which serves as a background upon which the empirical study will be built.