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

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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)

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.

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  • Nikodemus Solitander & Martin Fougere & André Sobczak & Heidi Herlin, 2012. "We Are the Champions: Organizational Learning and Change for Responsible Management Education," Post-Print hal-00956969, HAL.
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    DOI: 10.1177/1052562911431554
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