Responsible Management Education and Business School Practices
Beyond researching and teaching responsible management, business schools should aspire to walk the talk. They ought to become role models and responsible organisations themselves. Focussing on the original UK and Ireland institutions who committed to this initiative formally by becoming signatories, this book considers how this role-modelling behaviour has been applied.
Based on a number of personal interviews with PRME initiative leads, this book provides a two-dimensional framework based on structure and motivation as critical levers for progress in responsible management organisational practice. It offers unique recommendations on how to better frame and improve organisational practices in PRME member schools. Specifically, this book: 1. sheds light on how to bring PRME to life beyond teaching and research practices; 2. provides recommendations on how dean and PRME initiative leads in signatory institutions can better understand their current organisational practices and prepare improvements over time; and 3. energises and catalyses research on best organisational practices based on a clear research agenda.
This book is relevant to all stakeholders of modern management education, in particular, business school deans, university presidents, programme directors, PRME leads and non-academic leaders in business schools, such as COOs or managing directors.
Wolfgang Amann is professor of strategy and leadership at HEC Paris. In addition to designing and delivering executive education seminars worldwide for more than 20 years, he advises senior leaders and holds several boards assignments. He previously served as dean of the Complexity Management Academy, Executive Director and Executive Academic Director of the Goethe Business School at the University of Frankfurt, Executive Director of international degree programmes at the University of St. Gallen and also as the main project director for the foundation of the EBS University of Business and Law. He also led a think tank unit on long‑term corporate development at Daimler and founded a trading company for environmental technology with offices in Japan, China, Germany and the US.