Emerging Trends and Challenges in Business Academia

An Overview

Abstract

Emerging trends such as the Sustainable Business, Fourth Industrial Revolution and Business Disruption Technologies will change the way businesses are being carried out. Specialized skills and up to date knowledge is needed to handle such changes. There is an ever-increasing gap of expectations between career-oriented students and work-oriented employers. This forces management schools to offer employer-specific customized courses and allowing workspace to be future classrooms. In the globalization context, mangers will have to balance between ‘local’ and ‘global’ views. Soft skills need to be complemented with social media and social networking skills. In this direction, the paper uses descriptive content analysis method to identify some emerging trends that will influence business/management education so that these institutions can make appropriate changes to make their students future ready.