Purpose

Management education has received an immense amount of attention from both scholars and practitioners in the last few decades. Most research efforts have aimed at improving classroom education processes, programs and outcomes. Only a limited amount of research has focused on extracurricular activities such as mentoring top talented students for international business case competitions. This paper aims to examine the knowledge flow between mentors and strategic management undergraduates while they prepare for international business case competitions. This flow provides the opportunity for the development of phronetic skills, knowledge and leadership potential of undergraduates.

Design/methodology/approach

To understand the flow, 55 mentors worldwide were examined to provide evidence of their mentoring practices, perceived development of undergraduates and reverse learning of the business schools' top talents. For the analysis, the study used partial least squares–structural equation modeling.

Findings

The results of the study indicate that extracurricular mentoring of business case competitors strongly affects their development and creates recursive effects on the development of mentoring activities.

Research limitations/implications

Given the parsimony of mentors for premier global case study competitions, the findings of this study cannot easily be generalized to mentoring as such.

Originality/value

Despite the importance of the topics, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, a study of this kind has never been conducted before. For the construct of the authors’ model, the study was inspired by the multistage mentoring process theory.

中文翻译：

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在学生国际商业案例竞赛中指导发展

目的

在过去的几十年里，管理教育受到了学者和实践者的极大关注。大多数研究工作旨在改进课堂教育过程、计划和成果。只有有限的研究集中在课外活动上，例如指导顶尖人才参加国际商业案例竞赛。本文旨在考察导师与战略管理本科生在准备国际商业案例竞赛时的知识流动。这种流动为发展本科生的语音技能、知识和领导潜力提供了机会。

设计/方法/方法

为了了解这一流程，我们对全球 55 位导师进行了调查，以提供他们的指导实践、本科生的感知发展和商学院顶尖人才的逆向学习的证据。对于分析，该研究使用了偏最小二乘 - 结构方程模型。

发现

研究结果表明，商业案例竞争对手的课外辅导强烈影响他们的发展，并对辅导活动的发展产生递归影响。

研究限制/影响

鉴于主要全球案例研究竞赛的导师数量不多，本研究的结果不能轻易推广到此类指导。

原创性/价值

尽管这些主题很重要，但据作者所知，以前从未进行过此类研究。对于作者模型的构建，该研究受到多阶段指导过程理论的启发。