RT Article
T1 The Business School’s Right to Operate: Responsibilization and Resistance
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 136
IS 4
SP 743
OP 757
A1 Murillo, David 1971-
A1 Vallentin, Steen
A2 Vallentin, Steen
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785658263
AB The current crisis has come at a cost not only for big business but also for business schools. Business schools have been deemed largely responsible for developing and teaching socially dysfunctional curricula that, if anything, has served to promote and accelerate the kind of ruthless behavior and lack of self-restraint and social irresponsibility among top executives that have been seen as causing the crisis. As a result, many calls have been made for business schools to accept their responsibilities as social institutions and to work toward becoming more socially embedded and better attuned to public interests. In this paper, however, we point to some of the barriers there may be in the way of business schools developing into responsible organizational citizens proper. We argue that there are lines of resistance against responsibilization operating at epistemological, institutional, and organization levels and that we need to take account of barriers on all these levels in order to properly capture the challenges that are involved in making the modern business school amenable to demands for more social responsibility. In terms of working toward overcoming such barriers, we discuss how business education can become more socially embedded via the inclusion of ethical reflection and critical thinking.
K1 Critical management education
K1 Corporate Social Responsibility
K1 Business Ethics
K1 Management Education
K1 management paradigms
K1 Right to operate
K1 Business schools
DO 10.1007/s10551-015-2872-1