Developing a capstone course on ecological and social sustainability in business education

Manoj T. Thomas

Business Horizons, 2018, vol. 61, issue 6, 949-958

Abstract: Sustainability is an important goal of management education, but it has not been integrated properly into all the functional courses. One option for management schools attempting to fix this misalignment is to offer a course that provides an integrated approach to sustainability. This article attempts to structure the contents of a capstone course on sustainability that touches on all the dimensions of sustainability in different management functions. I present the key topics in sustainability and, based on a thorough literature review, identify the categories that constitute the content for a proposed course on business sustainability. The proposed topics pertain to conceptual tools for understanding the issues, different stakeholders, and functional areas. This course will fill the sustainability gap in the current curriculum in management education.

Keywords: Corporate sustainability; Management education; Capstone course; Social stakeholders; Corporate social responsibility; Environmental stakeholders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2018.07.013

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