A Systematic Review and Research Agenda on Corporate Expectations from Management Graduates

Abstract

Purpose: Today corporate networks are featured on a global scale. To delineate global standard corporate houses are striving hard to have high potential human resources which can create a competitive edge and economic surplus for them. The paper intends to compare the current status with the optimum status of research, thereby causing the research gap on meeting corporate expectations by management graduates. And also developing research agendas in connection with tapering the gap. Design/Methodology/Approach: The review paper is equipped with secondary data by focusing on the qualitative approach of the underlying problem statement. The data is collected from different scholarly articles, websites, research reports, surveys. Findings/Results: The review section of the paper has explored the current status of research being done on meeting corporate expectations by management graduates. The optimum status emerged so urges the need of filling the research gap by carrying out mega-empirical research on the industry-institute interface to propose the key aspects in meeting the corporate expectations from management graduates. Various research agendas are developed and SWOC analysis is made to get the outlook of the proposed research. Originality/Value: The paper identifies and proposes new areas of research to be carried out under empirical mode. Most of the research on the topic/area till today is descriptive rather than empirical. Based on the research gap, a research proposal is endorsed for further study. Paper type: Review based research agenda