Table Of ContentCitizenship and Sustainability in Organizations
BUSINESS SCHOOLS,
LEADERSHIP AND
THE SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
THE FUTURE OF RESPONSIBLE
MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
Edited by
Lars Moratis and Frans Melissen
Business Schools, Leadership and
the Sustainable Development
Goals
Business Schools, Leadership and the Sustainable Development Goals: The Future of
Responsible Management Education is the second book in the series Citizenship
and Sustainability in Organizations: Exploring and Spanning the Boundaries.
It contains chapters from various scholars and practitioners in the field of
responsible management education (RME). Through introspection, through
celebrating successes and learning from failures (retrospection) and through
looking forward (prospection), it aims to inspire a future of management
education and leadership development that demonstrates its relevance to
sustainable development. In doing so, it touches upon the grand societal
challenges of our time, as illustrated by the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals, and discusses how business schools, and other providers
of management education, could and should contribute to overcoming these
challenges. It argues that management education needs to educate future
leaders in a way that no longer hampers but truly accelerates the process of
sustainable development. This book offers a collection of thought-provoking
ideas, vivid stories (including personal accounts and experiences), and
appealing and engaged forecasts, visions and ideas about management
education and leadership development for sustainability. Hence, it is a
must-read for anyone interested in or involved in RME.
Lars Moratis is Professor of Sustainable Business at Antwerp Management
School and the Chair in Management Education for Sustainability, a joint
initiative of Antwerp Management School (Belgium) and Breda University
of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands).
Frans Melissen is Professor of Sustainable Experience Design at Breda
University of Applied Sciences and the Chair in Management Education
for Sustainability, a joint initiative of Antwerp Management School
(Belgium) and Breda University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands).
Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations
Series Editors: David F Murphy and Alison Marshall
Exploring how organisations and citizens respond to and influence current and
future global transformations, this book series publishes excellent, innovative, and
critical scholarship in the fields of citizenship, social responsibility, sustainability,
innovation, and place leadership in diverse organisational contexts. These contexts
include commercial businesses, social enterprises, public service organisations, in-
ternational organisations, faith-based organisations (FBOs), non-governmental or-
ganisations (NGOs), community groups, hybrids, and cross-sector partnerships. The
role of the individual as citizen may also be explored in relation to one or more of
these contexts, as could formal or informal networks, clusters, and organisational
ecosystems.
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John Beckford
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Exploring and Spanning the Boundaries
Edited by David F. Murphy and Alison Marshall
Knowledge Management and Sustainability
A Human-Centered Perspective on Research and Practice
Edited by David Israel Contreras-Medina, Julia Pérez Bravo and Elia Socorro Díaz Nieto
Corporate Citizenship and Family Business
Edited by Claire Seaman
Partnership and Transformation
The Promise of Multi-stakeholder Collaboration in Context
Leda Stott
Business Schools, Leadership and the Sustainable Development Goals
The Future of Responsible Management Education
Edited by Lars Moratis and Frans Melissen
Business Schools,
Leadership and the
Sustainable
Development Goals
The Future of Responsible
Management Education
Edited by Lars Moratis and
Frans Melissen
First published 2023
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Contents
List of tables vii
List of figures viii
List the contributors ix
Preface xiv
Introduction 1
FRANS MELISSEN AND LARS MORATIS
PART I
Visions and responses 9
1 The responsible management education paradox:
Applying the conceptual lens of Organisational
Ambidexterity 11
SIMON M. SMITH, HUGUES SÉRAPHIN, AND KAREN CRIPPS
2 Emotional competency in the interdisciplinary
classroom: A systems thinking perspective 31
JOANNA C. CAREY AND JAMES HUNT
3 Managing emotions in responsible management
education courses and promoting the leadership
of the Sustainable Development Goals 46
MUHAMMAD ATIF AND ENRICO FONTANA
4 Shaping sustainability leadership from the start:
Educating for sustainable development in undergraduate
business and management programmes 62
ALEX HOPE
vi Contents
PART II
Part II Critical and personal reflections 83
5 Balancing the scales: Changing perceptions of gender
stereotypes among students in a PRME champion
business school 85
ELAINE BERKERY AND NUALA RYAN
6 Between criticism and optimism: The derailment and
rehabilitation of business schools 100
GUÉNOLA ABORD-HUGON NONET, AFRODITA DOBREVA,
AND LUCAS MEIJS
7 Reflections of an engaged marketing scholar:
An SDG-guided journey towards being a ‘called
professional’ 117
RANJIT VOOLA
PART III
Creative pedagogies and assessments 137
8 The use of news articles as a pedagogical tool for
responsible management education 139
RUTH ARELI GARCÍA-LEÓN
9 Supporting transformation towards sustainable
development: The use of Appreciative Inquiry in
responsible management education 160
MIRJAM MINDERMAN
10 Applying authentic assessment to teaching the
Sustainable Development Goals 175
SARAH WILLIAMS AND DAVID F. MURPHY
11 Matters of measuring: Student learning and success in
sustainability education 191
LAUREN VERHEIJEN
Index 208
Tables
1.1 Overview of Organisational Ambidexterity 15
1.2 Comparison of competencies within sustainability
frameworks 24
5.1 Analysis of variance of mean item ratings and intraclass
coefficients by cohort and gender of respondent 92
6.1 Comparison between current and proposed business school
models 105
11.1 The overlap and differences between the key sustainability
competencies 194
Figures
3.1 Key features of teachers’ and student’s emotions and the
management thereof 57
4.1 Blueprint for sustainability integration in management
education 65
4.2 Integrating ethics, CSR, and sustainability in management
education 69
4.3 SDG programme specification mapping 75
6.1 A visual representation of the set of definitions for
responsible management and factors that influence
responsible management 110
6.2 OECD Learning Compass ( OECD, 2019) 111
7.1 A narrative model of authoring an identity as a called
professional 120
7.2 Ikigai 125
7.3 Re-imagining a problem to an opportunity: Google
Scholar citation (until December 2021) and kidney
failure journey 128
11.1 Ten phases of transformative learning 195
Contributors
Guénola Abord-Hugon Nonet is Assistant Professor at Jönköping
International Business School (JIBS), where she teaches, researches, and
leads projects and teams to help accelerate the sustainability transition.
Guénola is the former United Global Compact PRME Chair for
Scandinavia. She is JIBS Champion for Responsibility in Action and has
also chaired Jönköping University Sustainability Network from 2019 to
2022. Her pioneering doctoral research from 2013 studied responsible
management education and the needed changes in management education
to co-create sustainable societies. Guénola is Board member of Jönköping
County Sustainability Board.
Ruth Areli García-León is a lecturer and researcher at Ostfalia University of
Applied Sciences and the University of Hamburg in Germany. Her research
interest focuses on sustainable consumption and Responsible Management
Education. After working in the marketing and communication fields in the
public and private sectors, Dr. García-León moved to academia where she
has occupied different management positions. She has accumulated more
than 20 years of experience lecturing communication, marketing, and
management courses for graduate and undergraduate students in Spanish,
English, and German at different universities in Latin America and
Europe. She is part of the steering committee of the PRME DACH
Chapter (Germany-Austria-Switzerland) and the steering committee of
the PRME Working Group on Climate Change and Environment.
She holds a Ph.D. in Education Sciences, a Master in Marketing, an
M.Sc. in Communication, a Licentiate in Communication Sciences,
and is a certified coach and trainer of cross-cultural competencies.
Muhammad Atif is an Associate Professor at EDC Paris Business School,
France, and leads the school initiatives in corporate social responsibility
and sustainability areas. He received his Ph.D. in Management Sciences
from the University of Paris Dauphine (France) and an MBA degree
from IBA, University of Punjab (Pakistan). His research work is focused
on corporate social responsibility and sustainability, with a special
interest in textile industry and developing economies. In addition to
