Global Trends, Dynamics, and Imperatives for Strategic Development in Business Education in an Age of Disruption

Over the past two centuries, the world's socio-economic progression has gone through profound paradigm changes unfolding along four major development stages. Higher education has been an important part of this process. The accelerated pace of technological, socio-economic, and business innovations as well as ongoing fundamental changes in the real world call for progress in pedagogy. While modern universities have adapted in various degrees through information platforms such as Blackboard or Brightspace, video conferencing, and other technological innovations, they still commonly rely on pedagogical ideas and concepts rooted in a thoroughly pre-modern era rooted in medieval times. Global Trends, Dynamics, and Imperatives for Strategic Development in Business Education in an Age of Disruption explores the genesis of higher education and its contemporary structure and profile in major global regions and discusses key trends, dynamics, drivers, and developmental imperatives currently shaping business education. Covering topics such as business education, online education, and strategic development, this book is essential for teachers, managers, trainers, faculty, administrators, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students involved in studies that include industrial, economic, social, urban, innovation, legal, and policy development. About the Author Zhuplev, Anatoly is a Professor of International Business and Entrepreneurship at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, California) and former Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of East West Business (2011-2013). He taught for ten years at the Moscow Management Institute, and subsequently at the Advanced Training Institute of the State Committee for Printing and Publishing in Moscow; in Bonn, Germany in 1994, 1998, 2009; in Warsaw, Poland (as a Fulbright scholar) in 2005; in Paris, France in 2004-2007, and at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts in 1989-1990. His books and articles on International Management, International Entrepreneurship, International Business, European Energy Security and Corporate Governance (around 100 overall) have been published in the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, Russia, and the former USSR. He received his Ph.D. from the Moscow Management Institute, Russia, in 1981, and his B.S. from the Moscow Engineer-Economics Institute in 1974.Robert Koepp is a lecturer at the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University and the founder and principal of Los Angeles-based Geoeconomix, an independent consultancy focused on the intersecting economics of global markets, technology, and government policy. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Hong Kong-based fintech company, FinFabrik, and on the Advisory Council of the Center on AI Technology for Humankind (AITH) at National University of Singapore. He has also served as a lecturer and adjunct professor at California State University Long Beach, Pepperdine University, and the University of Southern California. Throughout a long-running global management career, Rob most recently served as director and the chief economist of the Corporate Network in Hong Kong for The Economist Group, parent company of the weekly publication, The Economist. His other executive positions include senior roles in international media, finance, technology and energy. He has also worked extensively in economic research involving development policy, technology clustering, and capital markets. Rob has previously authored two full-length books, Betting on China: Chinese Stocks, American Stock Markets, and the Wagers on a New Dynamic in Global Capitalism and Clusters of Creativity: Enduring Lessons on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Silicon Valley and Europe’s Silicon Fen. He was also the English editor and translator of a best-selling Japanese manga biography on George Soros. He is contributing the capstone chapter, “Locating the Digital Silk Road in the Belt an