Automotive industry ecologization: advantages and challenges of alternative fuel vehicles implication

The article is dedicated to the problem of identifying strategic groups in the business education market. The authors conducted a systematic review of publications on the topic. The object of the research is the developed markets of business education in the USA and Western Europe, the subject of the research is the groups of relatively homogeneous educational institutions that demonstrate similar strategic behaviour (strategic groups). For researchers, dividing market participants into strategic groups is the basis for identifying efficiency factors in the respective groups, and for heads of educational institutions and market regulators, it is a prerequisite for constructing meaningfully interpreted rankings and business school ratings. The purpose of the work is to identify trends in changes of the business-schools grouping approaches and the factors underlying such groupings. The authors revealed a shift of researchers' the emphasis from the characteristics of educational programs offered by schools to the positioning of schools in a wide social and educational environment. Although the strategic analysis level is growing, the discussion topic remains fragmented and covers only a part of the business education markets.

The concept of “smart village” and rural territories of Russia

The article is dedicated to the problem of identifying strategic groups in the business education market. The authors conducted a systematic review of publications on the topic. The object of the research is the developed markets of business education in the USA and Western Europe, the subject of the research is the groups of relatively homogeneous educational institutions that demonstrate similar strategic behaviour (strategic groups). For researchers, dividing market participants into strategic groups is the basis for identifying efficiency factors in the respective groups, and for heads of educational institutions and market regulators, it is a prerequisite for constructing meaningfully interpreted rankings and business school ratings. The purpose of the work is to identify trends in changes of the business-schools grouping approaches and the factors underlying such groupings. The authors revealed a shift of researchers' the emphasis from the characteristics of educational programs offered by schools to the positioning of schools in a wide social and educational environment. Although the strategic analysis level is growing, the discussion topic remains fragmented and covers only a part of the business education markets.

Disrupting conventional conceptions of parental engagement: Insights from international schools

Recently, increases in numbers of international schools have been fuelled by a growth in numbers of aspirational families selecting them. The perception that international education affords children access to social advantages has been established in the school choice literature, but there has yet to be an examination of this trend in relation to parental engagement in international schools. Views of parents on this growing trend will be sought in a separate study, but in this paper we approach the problem through international school staff perceptions of issues relating to parents. These emerged during interviews with those responsible for implementing one part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme: Creativity, Activity, Service. A communities of educational practice framework, adapted for parental engagement, indicated previously unidentified tensions in the international school/parent relationship. Conditions in international education markets create conditions that tip the balance of power, conventionally with the school, towards already-privileged international school parents, raising important questions about the relationship between international schools and social inequalities perpetuated by education.