We Are the Champions: Organizational Learning and Change for Responsible Management Education

Nikodemus Solitander, Martin Fougere, André Sobczak () and Heidi Herlin
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Nikodemus Solitander: Hanken School of Economics
Martin Fougere: Hanken School of Economics
André Sobczak: Audencia Recherche - Audencia Business School
Heidi Herlin: Hanken School of Economics

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Abstract: As the number of institutions adopting the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative grows, there is an overhanging risk that many of them will merely add "responsibility" as a topic to the existing curriculum. The authors contend that a serious reading of PRME should instead entail thinking in terms of a gradual transformation of management education. Such a serious reading poses a number of organizational learning (and unlearning) challenges. By relying on their own experiences at two PRME signatory business schools in France and Finland, they describe how faculty champions may face these challenges in implementing PRME, and specifically how they may overcome strategic, structural, and cultural barriers. The authors particularly emphasize political challenges at every level and the role of champions inducing reflexivity in overcoming some of the barriers. They argue that although faculty champions are not the most powerful actors within the business school, they are still well positioned to inspire and instill the needed transformation of management education. They conclude that faculty champions need to creatively "make do" within the constraints imposed by their organizational context.

Keywords: UN Principles for Responsible Management Education; Organizational Learning; Faculty champions; reflexivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Journal of Management Education, 2012, 36 (3), pp.337-363. ⟨10.1177/1052562911431554⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/1052562911431554

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