Teaching Business Sustainability : From Theory to Practice

ISBN-13: 9781874719540 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 342 str.

Opis

In a world where corporate governance scandals have become the everyday, the role of business schools in producing the managers of today - and tomorrow - has come into sharp focus. Today's managers and the MBAs that will follow them are in need of an education that grounds business ethics and the overarching concerns of sustainable development into the curriculum. As some, but by no means all, organisations are coming to realise, bad performance in environmental protection, labour practices and human rights is no longer a soft issue but one that can hit the bottom line with a vengeance. So, what is the state of the art in teaching business sustainability worldwide, and what teaching practices and tools are achieving successful results? This book begins to answer these questions and more.

Recenzje

A "must read" for anyone teaching SRI and CSR at the university or graduate level. Each essay provides a wealth of information, models, and experiences to draw from. - Brooklyn Bridge Newsletter, October 2004 - Robert Rubinstein, Triple Bottom Line Investing, Netherlands || Relevant for anyone concerned with this specialist area. - Long Range Planning 38 (2005) || ... a perfect design for a course on business sustainability - Business Strategy and the Environment Vol. 14 No. 3 (May–June 2005) || This book is a real eye-opener when it comes to the thorny question of teaching business sustainability ... This book is crucial for high level business trainers. - Eagle Bulletin, July 2005 || ... the book is a wonderful guide into the world of instruction in the field of business sustainability. In addition to an extensive bibliography, the chapters provide a detailed map through the issues, approaches, challenges, successes and pitfalls of teaching sustainability in a business context. - Natural Resources Forum, 1 February 2005 || … within its pages are a number of novel, interesting ideas and approaches that are well presented. Many of these ideas have stimulated a number of educational experimentsI will try out on students. - Social and Environmental Accounting Journal Volume 26 Issue 1 || This book provides examples of the teaching practices and tools that are achieving successful results. - Management of Environmental Quality Vol. 16 Issue 1 (2005) || This book will be an invaluable resource both for educators and organisations looking to reinvigorate internal management education programmes to factor in corporate responsibility and sustainability issues. - Sustain Magazine Vol. 5 Issue 6

Spis treści

Introduction Chris Galea, Saint Francis Xavier University, Canada Part 1: Theory, critique and ideas 1. Mental models @ work: implications for teaching sustainability John Adams, Saybrook Graduate School, USA 2. Teaching sustainability: a critical perspective Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, University of South Australia 3. Can publicly traded companies achieve environmentally and socially sustainable operation? Tom P. Abeles, Sagacity Inc., USA 4. The business of development: linking profits and principles to address global development challenges Pepukaye Bardouille, McKinsey & Company, Denmark 5. Is the MBA sustainable? Degrees of change Suzanne Benn and David Bubna-Litic, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 6. Integrating business and environmental education Steven R. Elliott, Raymond F. Gorman, Timothy C. Krehbiel and Orie L. Loucks, Miami University, USA, O. Homer Erekson, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, and H. Gregory Hume, TECHSOLVE, USA 7. Social sustainability David K. Foot, University of Toronto, Canada, and Susan Ross, Golder Associates Ltd, Canada 8. An international comparison of environmental concern among business students Michael Schaper, University of Newcastle, Australia Part 2: Learning from current practice 9. Sustainability education: the experience of HRH the Prince of Wales's Business and the Environment Programme Polly Courtice and Jonathon Porritt, Business and the Environment Programme, UK 10. Approaching sustainability through a business-science synthesis Steven R. Elliott, Raymond F. Gorman, Timothy C. Krehbiel, Orie L. Loucks and Allan M. Springer, Miami University, USA, and O. Homer Erekson, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA 11. Environmental actions, attitudes and knowledge: making a difference through university education? The case of Middlesex University Business School Diane Holt, Middlesex University Business School, UK 12. Mainstreaming sustainability issues in core undergraduate management education: the "Social Context of Business" course at McGill University Kariann Aarup, McGill University, Canada 13. The Environmental Enterprise Corps: educating MBA students about sustainability Gillian Rice, Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management, USA, and Amy Sprague, World Resources Institute, USA 14. Partners in learning: how a business school and a company worked together to advance sustainability Thomas L. Eggert and Dan Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and Ronald Meissen and Verie Sandborg, Baxter International Inc., USA 15. Matching form to content in educating for sustainability: the Master's course in Responsibility and Business Practice Judi Marshall, University of Bath, UK Part 3: Tools, methods and approaches 16. Making sense of corporate responsibility tools Sasha Courville, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University 17. Teaching sustainability: whole-systems learning Molly Brown, Intermountain Synthesis Center, USA, and Joanna Macy 18. Corporate education programmes for sustainable business: communities.

O autorze

Chris Galea