4 Shaping sustainability leadership from the start: Educating for sustainable development in undergraduate business and management programmes

Alex Hope

DOI: 10.4324/9781003244905-6

Introduction

Corporate scandals, the global credit crisis, environmental issues and increased income and wealth inequality have increased public scrutiny of the role of business in society.

Unsurprisingly, as bad management and poor leadership have been blamed for damaging society, business schools have been found culpable for poorly educating business leaders and managers for many years (Amann et al., 2011). As the training grounds for the managers and executives of the future, business schools have come under scrutiny with regard to their role in instilling ethical ...

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