Montpellier Business School

Overview

Montpellier Business School

Montpellier Business School is a French business school located in Montpellier, France. It was established in 1897 by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Montpellier. The school is one of the oldest members of the French Écoles Supérieures de Commerce. It is also one of the best management-offering schools in the country. Its known course offerings include business administration, marketing and management, and economics.

Montpellier Business School Key Statistics

The university comprises four departments including the Department of Technology and Innovation Management, the Department of Law, Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and the Department of Organizational Management. It offers one undergraduate and 11 master’s programs. Some of its most sought-after graduate programs include Master of Science in Digital Marketing and Omnichannel Strategy, Master of Science in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Business, and Master of Science in Transformational and Business Consulting.

Montpellier Business School's student population is approximately 2,500. It has nearly 100 faculty members and around 300 administrative staff. The school has been recognized by three internationally known accreditation bodies, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the European Quality Improvement System, and the Association of MBAs.

The other Montpellier Business School key statistics include its learning centers, the library, the Bloomberg trading room, and the coworking area. The library holds both physical and electronic resources, composed of electronic books, press articles, scientific journals, reports, and statistical data. The library also subscribes to several databases that contain full-text research articles.

Montpellier Business School Research

The school is an affiliate member of numerous prestigious research organizations like the Montpellier Research in Management and the LabEx Entreprendre. Funding sources include the French National Research Agency, the National Center for Scientific Research, and the European Research Council. Its top fields of research are entrepreneurship, business, and economic growth.

Montpellier Business School research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like Research Papers in Economics, Social Science Research Network, and the Journal of Business Research.

Its researchers have attended major scholarly conferences such as WebSci: Web Science, PICMET: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, and AOMAM: Academy of Management Annual Meeting.

The most cited Montpellier Business School research publication is Dana and Dana's (2005) "Expanding the scope of methodologies used in entrepreneurship research." This was published in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and has so far been cited 704 times.

The university’s second most cited publication is another work by Dana (1995) "Entrepreneurship in a remote sub-arctic community," which was featured in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and has received 467 citations.

Moreover, the university’s third most cited publication is Anderson et al.'s (2006) "Indigenous land rights, entrepreneurship, and economic development in Canada: “Opting-in” to the global economy,” which was published in the Journal of World Business with 448 citations.

The university has several research groups. These include Inter-organisational and interpersonal relations in the SME context, Management and organization of sustainable transformations, and Health, entrepreneurship, and psychological markers.

The other university’s research statistics include co-organizing several annual conferences including the International Finance Conference, the Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research, and the Internationale sur l’Energie, la Finance et la Macroéconomie.