Definitions!
Submitted by tom on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 07:32.
My head is starting to get dizzy by the wild usage of IMBA, IIM, PhD etc. so here is an attempt to allign things a bit.
IIM - Institute of International Management
is the name of our institute and office. It belongs to the College of Management which belongs to NCKU.
IMBA - International Master of Business Administration
and
IIM-PhD - Doctor of Philosophy in International Management
are programs given by the IIM.
Most of the time IMBA is being used as a term to refer to the IIM, as for e.g. in the title of this forum.
-sorry, Fili, for using this example, but I thought this makes it most vivid-
Thank you for your attention and merry X-mas
tom
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Thanks!
Thanks for that Tom. I know a lot people get confused with that alphabet soup.
Graeme
It depends who you ask...
The IMBA office, or as you call it - IIM, calls the PhD program IMBA-PhD. Google for IMBA and you'll see many people have different defintions for what IMBA is - IMBA - International Mountain Bicycling Association, Independent Mortgage Brokers Association etc. but I think that in this case I heard something like International Management of Business Administration, which might mean to say that this international management department is part of the bigger business school.
Fili
International Management of Business Administration????????
The IMBA office, or as you call it - IIM, calls the PhD program IMBA-PhD.
And this is exactly the point I am getting at. There is no International Master of Business Administration- Doctor of Philosophy.
This only proves that the nice ladies have no idea what they are talking about. The question of how our PhD program is called was resolved a long time ago with Mr. Cary.
In the academic listing you will also find that our Institute is called Institute of International Management (IMBA), but hence this info was last updated 2006 and there had not been a PhD program at that point of time. This is why everybody (incl. most of the ex-IMBA and now PhD students) refer to the office as IMBA!!
BTW: IIM can also mean Institute Internacional de Marseilles, but I don't think we need to discuss that in this context.
I am only trying to find a way that if we use these acronyms, we should know what is meant...
peace,
tom