A case study on professional skills and accredited graduate programs of marketing

Abstract We model the relationship between professional skills and higher education programs as a non-directed bipartite network with binary entries representing the links between 28 skills (as captured by the occupational information network, O*NET) and 258 graduate program summaries (as captured b...

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Main Authors: Silvana Dakduk, María del Pilar García-Chitiva, Juan C. Correa
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Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2025-05-01
Series:Applied Network Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-025-00696-w
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author Silvana Dakduk
María del Pilar García-Chitiva
Juan C. Correa
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description Abstract We model the relationship between professional skills and higher education programs as a non-directed bipartite network with binary entries representing the links between 28 skills (as captured by the occupational information network, O*NET) and 258 graduate program summaries (as captured by commercial brochures of graduate programs in marketing with accreditation standards of the “Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business”). While descriptive analysis for skills suggests a qualitative lack of alignment between the job demands captured by O*NET, inferential analyses based on exponential random graph model estimates show that skills’ popularity and homophily coexist with a systematic yet weak alignment to job demands for marketing managers.
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spelling doaj-art-a4c28df45a0944c6b5fbfea1b53e46c42025-08-20T03:16:40ZengSpringerOpenApplied Network Science2364-82282025-05-0110112210.1007/s41109-025-00696-wA case study on professional skills and accredited graduate programs of marketingSilvana Dakduk0María del Pilar García-Chitiva1Juan C. Correa2Universidad de los Andes School of Management (UASM)Department of Strategy and Leadership, EGADE Business School, Tecnologico de MonterreyCritical Centrality Institute, Research & Development UnitAbstract We model the relationship between professional skills and higher education programs as a non-directed bipartite network with binary entries representing the links between 28 skills (as captured by the occupational information network, O*NET) and 258 graduate program summaries (as captured by commercial brochures of graduate programs in marketing with accreditation standards of the “Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business”). While descriptive analysis for skills suggests a qualitative lack of alignment between the job demands captured by O*NET, inferential analyses based on exponential random graph model estimates show that skills’ popularity and homophily coexist with a systematic yet weak alignment to job demands for marketing managers.https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-025-00696-wSkillsUniversity programsBipartite networkCentralityExponential random graph
spellingShingle Silvana Dakduk
María del Pilar García-Chitiva
Juan C. Correa
A case study on professional skills and accredited graduate programs of marketing
Applied Network Science
Skills
University programs
Bipartite network
Centrality
Exponential random graph
title A case study on professional skills and accredited graduate programs of marketing
title_full A case study on professional skills and accredited graduate programs of marketing
title_fullStr A case study on professional skills and accredited graduate programs of marketing
title_full_unstemmed A case study on professional skills and accredited graduate programs of marketing
title_short A case study on professional skills and accredited graduate programs of marketing
title_sort case study on professional skills and accredited graduate programs of marketing
topic Skills
University programs
Bipartite network
Centrality
Exponential random graph
url https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-025-00696-w
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