Educating change agents for sustainability - learnings from the first sustainability management master of business administration
Educating change agents for sustainability - learnings from the first sustainability management master of business administration
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10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.03.042
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发表时间：
2014-01-01
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11.1
通讯作者：
Schaltegger, Stefan
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作者：
Hesselbarth, Charlotte;Schaltegger, Stefan
近年来，管理企业可持续性的知识和能力已成为公司、咨询公司、甚至非营利和公共机构不同职业道路的重要组成部分。为了应对这一新职业的全球趋势，越来越多的大学和商学院主动增加了企业社会责任和可持续发展管理方面的教学活动。由于大多数课程都没有长期的记录，而且到目前为止只有有限数量的以管理为导向的继续教育研究，我们仍然对如何最有效地教育管理人员，使其成为企业可持续发展的变革推动者知之甚少。本文考察了一个案例研究，并对德国伦堡大学可持续发展管理中心十年的可持续发展管理MBA教育提供了洞察。基于最近一次校友调查的数据，我们分析了首批成功的85名MBA学生的企业实践经验，以及第一个可持续管理硕士项目的中期效果。在分析的基础上，我们提出了一个能力矩阵来构建可持续发展管理研究生教育的基本组成部分。这篇论文揭示了现有的研究需要考虑MBA毕业生在应用所获得的知识时的实践经验，并将这些见解与课程开发联系起来。(C)2013爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
In recent years knowledge and capabilities to manage corporate sustainability have become a significant component of different career paths in companies, consultancies, and even in non-profit and public institutions. As an answer to this worldwide trend of a new profession ever more universities and business schools have taken the initiative to increase their teaching activities in corporate social responsibility and sustainability management. As most courses do not have a long track record and as only a limited number of management-oriented continuous education studies exists so far we still know little about how managers could be educated most effectively to become change agents for corporate sustainability. This paper examines a case study and provides insight into ten years of MBA education for sustainability management at the Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University Luneburg, Germany. Based on data from a recent alumni survey we analyze the corporate practice experiences of the first 85 successful MBA students and the medium term effects of the first master program in sustainability management. Based on the analysis we propose a competence matrix to structure basic components of postgraduate education in sustainability management. The paper unveils that extant research is needed to consider the practical experiences MBA graduates make when applying acquired knowledge and to link these insights to curriculum development. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.