The world is transforming through digitalisation and business schools are predisposed to this transition. Some universities have slickly sailed through the digitalisation challenge, while others have been left behind. The purpose of this research paper is to identify and examine the variables that impact the successful adoption of digitalisation by business schools. Gaining an understanding of these variables will help business schools adopt digitalisation for long-term improvement. Analysing gaps in the literature (mostly using sources from 2013 to 2019) helped identify eight independent variables that can influence the adoption of digitalisation in business schools. A five-point Likert scale questionnaire containing 56 non-demographic questions was sent to the target population. The survey saw responses from 421 participants worldwide, including academics from flagship business schools and education technology experts. A conceptual model was developed using a structural equation model in ADANCO 2.0.1, which was used to postulate the hypotheses. Empirically, students’ competence has the strongest influence on the adoption of digitalisation by business schools, followed closely by teachers’ competence and technology diffusion, in that order. However, industry expectations do not significantly influence this adoption. This reflects a lapse from business schools in coping with the expectations of the corporate world, thus indicating that future researchers need to study this misalignment. The results from this study display a left shift in the bell-shaped curve of Rogers’ (2003) theory of diffusion of innovations, indicating an increase in the category of early adopters of technology from 50 to 90%.

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影响商学院教学采用数字化的关键成功因素

世界正在通过数字化进行变革，而商学院则倾向于这种转变。一些大学巧妙地克服了数字化挑战，而另一些则被抛在后面。本研究报告的目的是识别和检验影响商学院成功采用数字化的变量。了解这些变量将有助于商学院采用数字化以进行长期改进。分析文献中的空白（主要使用2013年至2019年的数据）有助于确定八个可影响商学院数字化采用的独立变量。将包含56个非人口统计学问题的五点李克特量表问卷发送给目标人群。调查显示，全球共有421名参与者，包括来自旗舰商学院的学者和教育技术专家。使用ADANCO 2.0.1中的结构方程模型开发了概念模型，该模型用于假设。根据经验，学生的能力对商学院采用数字化的影响最大，其次是教师的能力和技术扩散。但是，业界的期望并没有显着影响这种采用。这反映出商学院在应付企业界期望方面的失误，从而表明未来的研究人员需要研究这种错位。这项研究的结果表明，罗杰斯（2003）的创新扩散理论的钟形曲线向左移动，