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Responsible management education (RME) post COVID-19: what must change in public business schools?

Mohamed Mousa (Department of Management, WSB University, Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland)

Journal of Management Development

ISSN: 0262-1711

Article publication date: 22 January 2021

Issue publication date: 24 February 2021

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Abstract

Purpose

Through a multiple case study design, this article elaborates the chances of initiating and/or implementing responsible management education (RME) in Egyptian public business schools after the identification of COVID-19. In other words, this paper identifies the effect of COVID-19 on internalizing RME in the previously mentioned context.

Design/methodology/approach

This is a qualitative study. The author focused on academics who work in four out of the 25 business schools in Egypt and employed a multiple-case study design (to collect his data.

Findings

The results showed that COVID-19 has not had any effect on the adoption of sustainable business education in the sample institutions. Moreover, some respondents went further and indicated that the identification of coronavirus slows down any attempt to implement RME in Egyptian public business schools. Accordingly, the author thinks that the sample business schools can implement RME post-COVID-19 if they overcome the following three types of obstacles: self-determination, contextual and national obstacles.

Originality/value

This paper contributes by filling a gap in RME, leadership and literature in the higher education sector, in which empirical studies on the effect of COVID-19 on the performance of business school have been limited until now.

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Acknowledgements

Funding: The project is funded under the program of the Minister of Science and Higher Education titled “Regional Initiative of Excellence” in 2019-2022, project number 018/RID/2018/19, the amount of funding PLN 10 788 423,16.

Citation

Mousa, M. (2021), "Responsible management education (RME) post COVID-19: what must change in public business schools?", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 40 No. 2, pp. 105-120. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-10-2020-0316

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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