WrittenMauricio G. Villena, Rafael Sánchez, and María José QuinterosPublished by: Mauricio G. Villena via personal website
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Extracted Content: ABSTRACT – While there are many academic works analyzing the impact of MBA rankings on business schools’ operation, strategy and performance for the United States and Europe, studying trends and determinants of schools’ success, to our knowledge, there are no works squarely analyzing the specific case of Latin America’s business schools. It is precisely in this context that we want to contribute to the literature by putting forward a longitudinal analysis of the changes in the AmericaEconomia MBA Rankings for the period 2005-2014. The AmericaEconomia ranking was the first international ranking specifically devoted to Latin American business schools, and with data gathered by this ranking we build a panel to study its stability and the main determinants of a school’s position in such ranking during the period under study. The final aim of this study is to examine the reliability of the AmericaEconomia ranking, that is whether changes in the ranking positions are not just due to white noise, and compare its stability with those of the US and other global rankings. We also want to empirically determine which are the key quality variables this ranking is promoting for Latin America Business Schools and the evolution of these business schools during the period under study.