TY  - CHAP
AB  - Many believe we are suffering from an ethics crisis (Perry & Nixon, 2005). The increased incidence of irresponsible behaviour by business, recent examples being the global financial crisis and the BP oil spill, and the devastating consequences on society have focused attention on the role business schools play in educating future business (and other) leaders. There have also been criticisms of business schools failing to take into account the ‘factually impossible notion of unlimited growth in a world of limited resources’ (Giacalone & Thompson, 2006), and continuing to encourage business strategies which are at odds with the growing challenge of sustainable development, which include issues of climate change, inequity and resource depletion (Giacalone & Thompson, 2006; Shrivastava, 1995; Waddock, 2007). Indeed, business schools have been criticised for encouraging a self-interested, profit-oriented focus that ignores the wider responsibilities of business to society (Gioia, 1992; Kochan, 2002; Mitroff, 2004). Starkey, Hatchuel, and Tempest (2004), for example, claim that the business school has become “ethically compromised because the values it espouses have been implicated in recent corporate scandals.” McPhail (2001) suggests the inclusion of business ethics into accounting and business education as a possible remedy. Cant and Kulik went further and claimed that “business schools would be remiss, if not unethical themselves, if their ethics education efforts were not increased in light of recent events.” (2009).
VL  - 4
SN  - 978-1-78190-590-6, 978-1-78190-589-0/2043-0523
DO  - 10.1108/S2043-0523(2013)0000004007
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2043-0523(2013)0000004007
AU  - Baden Denise
ED  - Jamilah Ahmad
ED  - David Crowther
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013/01/01
TI  - Applying Social Psychology to the Challenge of Embedding Ethics into the Business School Curriculum
T2  - Education and Corporate Social Responsibility International Perspectives
T3  - Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 77
EP  - 110
Y2  - 2024/04/16
ER  -