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Beyond the curriculum: integrating sustainability into business schools

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posted on 2016-05-23, 10:05 authored by Mollie Painter-Morland, Ehsan SabetEhsan Sabet, Petra Molthan-Hill, Helen Goworek, Sander de Leeuw
This paper evaluates the ways in which European business schools are implementing sustainability and ethics into their curricula. Drawing on data gathered by a recent large study that the Academy of Business in Society conducted in cooperation with EFMD, we map the approaches that schools are currently employing by drawing on and expanding Rusinko’s (Acad Manag Learn Educ 9(3):507–519 2010) and Godemann et al.’s (2011) matrice of integrating sustainability in business and management schools. We show that most schools adopt one or more of the four approaches outlined by Godemann et al. (2011). However, we also argue that a fifth dimension needs to be added as the existing matrices do not capture the systemic nature of such curricular initiatives and how these are influenced by internal factors within the business school and external factors beyond. We suggest calling this fifth dimension ‘Systemic Institutional Integration’ and demonstrate that any business school which aims to integrate sustainability further into the curricula cannot succeed without the following: (1) Systemic thinking and systemic leadership, (2) Connectedness to business, the natural environment and society and (3) Institutional capacity building. Utilising further literature and the answers provided by the deans and faculty, we discuss each factor in turn and suggest paths towards the successful systemic institutional integration of sustainability and ethics into management education.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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Journal of Business Ethics

Citation

PAINTER-MORLAND, M. ... et al, 2016. Beyond the curriculum: integrating sustainability into business schools. Journal of Business Ethics, 139 (4), pp. 737-754.

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© Springer Science+Business Media

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2016

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The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2896-6.

ISSN

0167-4544

eISSN

1573-0697

Language

  • en

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