Business Schools and their Contribution to Society

Alfons Sauquet has served as Director of the Combined Undergraduate and Master in Business Administration at ESADE.He has been a lecturer at HEC Paris, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam and Wharton School of Business, in addition to being Visiting Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and the Copenhagen Business School. He is a lecturer at the Summer School organized by the European Doctoral Association for Management in Business Administration (EDAMBA).He has been CEMS Chairman of the Interfaculty Group in Organizational Behaviour.He has directed research projects funded by the European Commission on Learning in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in four European countries. The ESADE partners in this project are Università Luigi Bocconi (Milan), Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna) and the Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen).He is the principal researcher on the Learning and Knowledge in Organizations Research Group (GRACO).Ministry of Education and Science Adviser on Educational Quality programmes and for the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.He has been a consultant to various national and international organizations on learning, organizational culture and change. At present, he is a member of the Academic Council of the Association for Human Resources Management in International Organizations (AHRMIO). He has been invited by UNESCO and is a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme.

• Foreword - Bernard RamanantsoaPrologue: Business Schools As Usual? - Mette Morsing and Alfons Sauquet RoviraPART ONE: HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON BUSINESS SCHOOL LEGITIMACYBusiness Education - Rakesh Khurana and Daniel PenriceThe American TrajectoryCreating a Business School Model Adapted to Local Reality - Maria Tereza Leme Fleury and Thomaz Wood JrA Latin American PerspectiveThe Changing Role of Business Schools as Key Social Agents in Asia - Bernard Yeung and Kulwant SinghInstitutional Evolution and New Trends in Russian Management Education - Valery S. KatkaloThe Legitimacy and Future of Business Schools in Turkey - Baris TanEuropean Business Schools and Globalization - Lluis PugesCSR, Business Schools and the Asia Pacific Context - Juliet RoperPART TWO: TOWARDS A NEW LEGITIMACY FOR BUSINESS SCHOOLS IN GLOBAL SOCIETYBusiness Schools in Society - Alan Irwin, Dorte Salskov-Iversen and Mette MorsingThe Distinctiveness of DiversityDesign Science as a Reference Point for Management Research - Michael Barzelay and Saul Estrin The National Role of Contemporary Business Schools in Response to the Financial Crisis - Thomas M. Begley and Patrick T. GibbonsBusiness Schools - From Career Training Centers towards Enablers of CSR - Thomas BiegerA New Vision for Teaching at Business SchoolsThe Future of Business School Research - Muel Kaptein and George S. YipThe Need for Dual Research Methodologies Business Schools′ Corporate Social Responsibility - Christoph Badelt and Barbara SpornPractice What You PreachThe Role of Higher Education Institutions in the Fields of Economic and Social Sciences - Guido TabelliniHas It Been Changed by the Economic Downturn?Business Schools in Relation to the Organizational and Ethical Challenges of Systemic Transformation - Adam BudnikowskiA Polish ExampleThe New Rigor - Judith SamuelsonBeyond the Right AnswerPART THREE: BUSINESS SCHOOLS′ ROLE IN SHAPING AND TRANSFORMING ETHICAL BUSINESS CONDUCTResponsible Business Education - Carlos Losada, Janette Martel and Josep M. LozanoNot a Question of Curriculum but a Raison d′Être for Business Schools The Business School of the 21st Century - Valerie Swaen, Philippe de Woot, Didier de CallatayEducating Citizens to Address the New World ChallengesThe Need for Good Old Principles in Financial Management Education - Eero Kasanen and Robert GrossePRME and Four Theses on the Future of Management Education - Manuel EscuderoA Plea to Business Schools - Robert StrandTear Down Your Walls Corporate Responsibility and the Business Schools′ Response to the Credit Crisis - Nigel Roome, David Bevan and Gilbert LenssenEpilogue - Alfons Sauquet Rovira, Mette Morsing and Marc Vilanova

′Undoubtedly, the book′s most insightful, penetrating, even quasi-radical proposal comes from a trio of experts at Barcelona′s ESADE business school: Carlos Losada (the former Director), Janette Martell (of the school′s Social Responsibility Task Force), and Josep M. Lozano (Professor of Social Science). Their unique view of the value/normativity dimension will, or should, give all business educators pause to reflect on what they teach and how they interact with their students′ - William C. FrederickProfessor Emeritus of Business Administration, Katz Graduate school of Business, University of Pittsburgh Click Here to read the full review. ′Business schools are among the most influential institutions in contemporary society. This book represents a most welcome voice in the urgent need to discuss the future role of business schools. What skills and competences do we need of our leaders of tomorrow? How do we make sure that business schools are able to not only educate students in traditional business skills, but also give them such a basic understanding of the dynamics of contemporary society so they may interact constructively with the diversity of stakeholders and thus contribute to the role business must play in securing the sustainabiliy of our global society? How may business schools contribute in innovative ways to the development of a society that is in need of new ways of addressing basic needs such as equal rights, clean water, energy and waste disposal? While this book does not pretend to provide all the answers to such demanding questions, it will stimulate reflection by questioning conventional business school thinking′ Mads ∅vlisenSpecial Advisor to UN Global Compact and former Chair of Novo Nordisk ′After the 2008 crisis, the private sector has been more than ever under the public limelight. In the midst of this debate, one central issue seems to be how business schools develop and foster management models that shape how businesses behave. This book finally opens the possibility to reflect on the multiple forms in which business schools are contributing to society′Philippe LouvetCorporate Director, Learning for Development, L′Oreal