Reflecting the rapid rise in popularity of recent initiatives such as the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), this Handbook exhaustively covers a variety of responsible management, learning and education topics, and provides an invaluable roadmap for this fast-developing field. Covering various perspectives on the topic, right through to contexts, methods, outcomes and beyond, this volume will be an invaluable integrative resource for practitioners and researchers alike, and is designed to serve a range of communities that deal with topics related to sustainability, responsibility and ethics in management learning and education. Part 1: Perspectives on Responsible Management Learning and Education; Part 2: Educational Purposes and Contents; Part 3: Learning Outcomes and Processes; Part 4: Academic Environment; and Part 5: Responsible Research.

Poverty and Responsible Management Education

Poverty and Responsible Management Education

Poverty and responsible management education
Geri Mason Al Rosenbloom

Poverty has been a persistent characteristic of human society throughout history (Beaudoin, 2006; Sachs, 2006). Yet, it was not until 1990, when the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) chose poverty as its theme, that the issue of poverty was put firmly on the world's development agenda. Both the Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals had poverty eradication as Goal #1, thereby confirming the salience of poverty as the most important human development challenge the world faces. One decade later, the relationship between multinational corporations and the poor was transformed when C. K. Prahalad and colleagues defined the Base of the ...

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