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.

Critical Perspectives on (and in) Responsible Management Education: The PRME Imaginary

Critical Perspectives on (and in) Responsible Management Education: The PRME Imaginary

Critical perspectives on (and in) responsible management education: the PRME imaginary
Jill Millar

Introduction

Responsible management learning and education (RMLE) has a ground-breaking ambition, to transform management practice through rethinking management education, reconnecting academics and practitioners. It represents a challenge to mainstream business orthodoxies in business schools and businesses, demanding a broadening of focus from concerns with profitability, efficiency and effectiveness, to include the recognition that sustainability, responsibility and ethics are integral to how business is taught, researched and practised. In this chapter I will argue that while such a transformation of management education is much needed, some current initiatives to bring about change have, paradoxically, the potential to perpetuate existing ...

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