Sustainability Centres and Fit: How Centres Work to Integrate Sustainability Within Business Schools

Rieneke Slager (), Sareh Pouryousefi (), Jeremy Moon () and Ethan D. Schoolman ()
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Rieneke Slager: University of Groningen
Sareh Pouryousefi: Nottingham University Business School
Jeremy Moon: Copenhagen Business School
Ethan D. Schoolman: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, vol. 161, issue 2, No 7, 375-391

Abstract: Abstract For nearly as long as the topic of sustainable business has been taught and researched in business schools, proponents have warned about barriers to genuine integration in business school practices. This article examines how academic sustainability centres try to overcome barriers to integration by achieving technical, cultural and political fit with their environment (Ansari et al. in Acad Manag Rev 35(1):67–92; Ansari et al., Academy of Management Review 35(1):67–92, 2010). Based on survey and interview data, we theorise that technical, cultural and political fit are intricately related, and that these interrelations involve legitimacy, resources and collaboration effects. Our findings about sustainability centres offer novel insights on integrating sustainable business education given the interrelated nature of different types of fit and misfit. We further contribute to the literature on fit by highlighting that incompatibility between strategies to achieve different types of fit may act as a source of dynamism.

Keywords: Sustainable business education; Academic centres; Fit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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