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Practicing Responsibility in Business Schools
Implications for Teaching, Research, and Innovation
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Promoting more responsible action in relation to business sustainability, this book addresses the increasing discomfort among faculty members and wider society as to how business schools prepare students for the future. Reflective and inspiring, it seeks to motivate the necessary action which may be a small but crucial catalysts to solving challenges posed by increasing globalisation, migration, economic development, changing demographics, and cultural exchange.
Promoting more responsible action in relation to business sustainability, this book addresses the increasing discomfort among faculty members and wider society as to how business schools prepare students for the future. Reflective and inspiring, it seeks to motivate the necessary action which may be a small but crucial catalysts to solving challenges posed by increasing globalisation, migration, economic development, changing demographics, and cultural exchange.
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Promoting more responsible action in relation to business sustainability, this book addresses the increasing discomfort among faculty members and wider society as to how business schools prepare students for the future. Reflective and inspiring, it seeks to motivate the necessary action which may be a small but crucial catalysts to solving challenges posed by increasing globalisation, migration, economic development, changing demographics, and cultural exchange.
Split into four thematic sections, chapters throughout explore the global issues that have simultaneously fuelled business opportunities while creating new challenges for sustainability. The book begins with a fresh perspective on the sustainability challenges posed by dysfunctional capitalism, before addressing central challenges for sustainable human resource management and psycho-social working life issues. It moves on to look at efforts to incorporate a responsible and sustainable perspective on business management. Finally, outlining the key sustainable challenges in teaching, research and innovation, it evaluates how business schools are managing the expectation to adopt a responsible and sustainable business perspective in research, course designs and teaching.
Speaking to the growing call for business schools to prioritise sustainable, ethical practices, this book will be essential reading for lecturers, practitioners and scholars engaging with sustainable solutions to environmental concerns related to business, geography, urban planning, policy and management.
Split into four thematic sections, chapters throughout explore the global issues that have simultaneously fuelled business opportunities while creating new challenges for sustainability. The book begins with a fresh perspective on the sustainability challenges posed by dysfunctional capitalism, before addressing central challenges for sustainable human resource management and psycho-social working life issues. It moves on to look at efforts to incorporate a responsible and sustainable perspective on business management. Finally, outlining the key sustainable challenges in teaching, research and innovation, it evaluates how business schools are managing the expectation to adopt a responsible and sustainable business perspective in research, course designs and teaching.
Speaking to the growing call for business schools to prioritise sustainable, ethical practices, this book will be essential reading for lecturers, practitioners and scholars engaging with sustainable solutions to environmental concerns related to business, geography, urban planning, policy and management.
Critical Acclaim
‘Business schools can be institutional leaders in reshaping regional and national economies in support of inclusive and environmentally-sensitive growth. But for this to happen, business school faculty and administrators need to take a long hard look at what is currently being taught and practiced and reflect on how it might curtail real or lasting institutional change. This book offers a refreshing mix of introspection and humility, illuminating options for on-going institutional reform—at once bold and actionable.’
– Nichola Lowe, University of Minnesota, US
‘Business schools are very often teaching the sort of capitalism that is now creating climate change, inequality and populism. If we can''t shut them down, then the least that could be done is to take their important responsibilities to our collective future seriously. This book is an important contribution to forcing them to do that.’
– Martin Parker, University of Bristol Business School, UK
– Nichola Lowe, University of Minnesota, US
‘Business schools are very often teaching the sort of capitalism that is now creating climate change, inequality and populism. If we can''t shut them down, then the least that could be done is to take their important responsibilities to our collective future seriously. This book is an important contribution to forcing them to do that.’
– Martin Parker, University of Bristol Business School, UK
Contributors
Contributors: Bjørn Asheim, John Bessant, Bernard Burnes, Rune Todnem By, Stewart Clegg, Matthew Coffay, John Arngrim Hunnes, Maria Therese Jensen, Jan Erik Karlsen, Gorm Kipperberg, Fumi Kitagawa, Jon P. Knudsen, Thomas Laudal, Sigrun Marie Moss, Reidar J. Mykletun, Espen Olsen, Torunn Skåltveit Olsen, Antigoni Papadimitriou, Lila Skountridaki, Knut Sogner, Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen Solheim, Ragnar Tveterås
Contents
Contents:
Foreword I: towards a responsible business school – challenges
for teaching, research, and innovation xvi
Ola Kvaløy
Foreword II: it’s time to radically re-think the business school xix
Carl Rhodes
Introduction to Practicing Responsibility in Business Schools:
Implications for Teaching, Research, and Innovation 1
Professor Bjørn Terje Asheim, Associate Professor
Thomas Laudal, and Professor Reidar J. Mykletun
PART I CRITICAL MANAGEMENT
1 How to ‘fix’ the bad capitalism: an analytical framework
for purposeful action 18
Professor Bjørn Terje Asheim
2 Responsibility in academia: a cautionary note 44
Professor Jon P. Knudsen
3 Taking the lead on leadership: reimagining the responsible
business school of the future 55
Rune Todnem By, Stewart Clegg, and Bernard Burnes
4 The leadership challenge of industrial sustainability: the
case of Norway 77
Jan Erik Karlsen
PART II CHALLENGES IN ORGANISATIONAL HRM
5 New insight regarding the ageing workforce: it is time to
close this knowing-doing gap 108
Reidar J. Mykletun
6 Diversity on the blackboard: the nexus between teaching,
diversity, and awareness 144
Marte C. W. Solheim and Sigrun M. Moss
7 Academic burnout: causes and consequences 163
Maria Therese Jensen and Espen Olsen
PART III RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
8 An exploratory study of commitment to RME as
demonstrated in mission statements and websites in
selected US business schools 182
Antigoni Papadimitriou
9 Embedding responsible management education through
missions, governance and accreditation processes: A case study 201
Lila Skountridaki and Fumi Kitagawa
10 Disruptive innovation in the higher education sector: the
case of the One Planet MBA 213
John Bessant
11 Academics as teachers of business responsibility?
Historians, philosophers, and the maturation of the young
minds within Norwegian business schools 225
Knut Sogner
PART IV SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES IN
TEACHING, RESEARCH, AND INNOVATION
12 Ethics and sustainability in undergraduate Business Studies 238
John A. Hunnes and Torunn S. Olsen
13 Sustainability in the business school syllabus: mind the gap 260
Thomas Laudal
14 An introspective essay on the virtues of teaching
environmental economics to business students 283
Gorm Kipperberg
15 Research-based innovation for sustainable development:
the case of aquaculture 314
Matthew M. Coffay and Ragnar Tveterås
Index
Foreword I: towards a responsible business school – challenges
for teaching, research, and innovation xvi
Ola Kvaløy
Foreword II: it’s time to radically re-think the business school xix
Carl Rhodes
Introduction to Practicing Responsibility in Business Schools:
Implications for Teaching, Research, and Innovation 1
Professor Bjørn Terje Asheim, Associate Professor
Thomas Laudal, and Professor Reidar J. Mykletun
PART I CRITICAL MANAGEMENT
1 How to ‘fix’ the bad capitalism: an analytical framework
for purposeful action 18
Professor Bjørn Terje Asheim
2 Responsibility in academia: a cautionary note 44
Professor Jon P. Knudsen
3 Taking the lead on leadership: reimagining the responsible
business school of the future 55
Rune Todnem By, Stewart Clegg, and Bernard Burnes
4 The leadership challenge of industrial sustainability: the
case of Norway 77
Jan Erik Karlsen
PART II CHALLENGES IN ORGANISATIONAL HRM
5 New insight regarding the ageing workforce: it is time to
close this knowing-doing gap 108
Reidar J. Mykletun
6 Diversity on the blackboard: the nexus between teaching,
diversity, and awareness 144
Marte C. W. Solheim and Sigrun M. Moss
7 Academic burnout: causes and consequences 163
Maria Therese Jensen and Espen Olsen
PART III RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
8 An exploratory study of commitment to RME as
demonstrated in mission statements and websites in
selected US business schools 182
Antigoni Papadimitriou
9 Embedding responsible management education through
missions, governance and accreditation processes: A case study 201
Lila Skountridaki and Fumi Kitagawa
10 Disruptive innovation in the higher education sector: the
case of the One Planet MBA 213
John Bessant
11 Academics as teachers of business responsibility?
Historians, philosophers, and the maturation of the young
minds within Norwegian business schools 225
Knut Sogner
PART IV SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES IN
TEACHING, RESEARCH, AND INNOVATION
12 Ethics and sustainability in undergraduate Business Studies 238
John A. Hunnes and Torunn S. Olsen
13 Sustainability in the business school syllabus: mind the gap 260
Thomas Laudal
14 An introspective essay on the virtues of teaching
environmental economics to business students 283
Gorm Kipperberg
15 Research-based innovation for sustainable development:
the case of aquaculture 314
Matthew M. Coffay and Ragnar Tveterås
Index
