Preparing the Changemakers of Tomorrow

MCI researchers launch textbook on innovation in responsible management education

Over the past several months, Regina Obexer, Head of the MCI Center for Responsible Management & Social Impact, Desiree Wieser, Assistant Professor at the Department of Nonprofit, Social & Health Care Management, and Anita Zehrer, Head of the MCI Family Business Center, have been working together with colleagues from around the globe and Emerald to publish the book “Innovation in Responsible Management Education: Preparing the Changemakers of Tomorrow.”

The publication calls for a paradigm shift in education, emphasizing the need for higher education institutions to embrace sustainable development principles. Despite decades of efforts at policy and institutional levels, the transformation needed to equip learners for the pressing challenges of the 21st century and accelerate sustainable development remains fragmented and elusive. This is particularly critical in management education, where today’s students will become tomorrow’s business leaders. Responsible management education (RME) focuses on responsibility, sustainability, and ethics in business and, although this field is growing, progress in its implementation has been too slow to catalyze the significant economic and societal changes urgently needed.

Featuring contribution from experts worldwide, this book offers insights into innovative approaches in higher education policy, curriculum design, teaching methods, and business practices. It aims to inspire educators and practitioners to integrate responsible management education into diverse contexts, fostering positive societal change and nurturing future leaders with a commitment to social impact.  

Regina Obexer: “Educational institutions, as major agents in forming our society, play a vital role in facilitating and accelerating change in management education. At the same time, we have to admit that just like businesses and government institutions, universities and business schools are often overwhelmed with the challenge of really instigating and driving the systemic changes required to put the world on a more sustainable trajectory, and often do not know where to start to take action in the first place. The chapters in this book provide a range of positive examples, approaches and strategies that will inspire and stimulate responsible management education in the future.”

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Editors: Regina Obexer, Desiree Wieser, Christian Baumgartner, Lisa Fröhlich, Alfred Rosenbloom, Anita Zehrer
Co-Authors: Rebecca Chunghee Kim, Yoshiki Shinohara, Louisa Mach, Bernd Ebersberger, Lois Fearon, Alexandra Grammenou, Antje Bierwisch, Martina Schmitz, Markus Kreikebaum, Pratibha Singh, Avvari V. Mohan, Helga Mayr, Kristina Steinbiß, Lisa Marx, Gundula Glowka
Contributor: Wayne Visser
Publisher: Emerald