AMDISA - Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia

AMDISA - Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia - is an International not-for-profit association. It is a network of Management Education and Management Development Institutions in South Asia. It has 315 institutional members. Its mission is to “Promote management education and management development activities in South Asia, taking into account the economic, social and cultural context of the Region, with the firm dedication to world-wide exchange of experience and ideas in the fields concerned.” AMDISA organizes programmes and events on management and management development on its own as well as in association with member institutions in South Asia. AMDISA launched the global benchmark quality assurance and accreditation system for Business Schools - SAQS. SAQS is the quality assurance scheme run by AMDISA as a service to the management education profession worldwide. SAQS emerged in an EFMD - AMDISA cooperation through a European Union funded Asia - Link project in 2003-04. It is inspired by EFMD's EQUIS criteria guidelines and is designed as an international accreditation system. It is a globally benchmarked system for mentoring, quality improvement, quality assurance and accreditation. SAQS accreditation processes lead to improvement through highlighting the need to meet internationally accepted quality standards. SAQS Quality Label is a recognition to the institution's commitment to Quality and Quality Assurance through continuous improvement. SAQS accreditation is institutional. Institution being defined as the organisational unit providing business and management education. AMDISA publishes a Newsletter three times a year and the South Asian Journal of Management, a double-blind refereed quarterly international journal. It is a prestigious publication and is indexed by two internationally acclaimed database services, EBSCO and ProQuest.