A29 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: OtherReturn

The article deals with the requirements placed on Executive Development Programmes (EDPs) and their success factors. Executives belong to the top and upper management of companies who see the organization as a unit and not the individual function areas in the foreground. EDPs seek qualification that goes beyond the skills of their current activities, they offer practical state-of-the-art training to acquire new techniques, and they benefit from the experience of other participants. Further education institutions have to satisfy the demand for teaching technical, conceptual and social skills in compliance with the requirements of the learning process and type of content. Selection criteria for an alternative training or a specific school are, in general, content, target group and existing own resources. Using a practice-induced model, interdependent success factors of EDPs were identified such as provider quality, experiential learning and internationality, applied approach and environmental conditions.

A case study is a valuable instrument for teaching and examining business related disciplines. Application and utilization of case studies have been discussed at length in the academic literature. To a lesser degree, authors have addressed the issue of case production. Case studies can be employed not only for teaching but for research purposes as well. Case study methodology assists solving various research problems in social sciences. This paper provides discussion about steps, limitations and creative approaches, which are associated with writing both teaching and research cases. Through an ongoing analysis of overlaps and differences between teaching and research cases there might be a possibility of transition from a research to teaching case and vice versa.