Sustainability In Management Education

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1. Introduction
Sustainability in today's times has become such a prime concern both in the body of knowledge and society that hardly any dimension of knowledge is left untouched from its purview. That is the reason whenever we want to talk about the sustainability; it needs to be specific in the light of existing context. This observation prevails because of the existence of specific sustainability problems. The reason behind it stands as the diverse contributions made by authors from different dimensions of the body of knowledge. In early times, several decade ago Brown, Hanson, Liverman, and Merideth (1987) stressed upon the context of sustainability and argued that context should be under consideration at the time of decision making. The …show more content…

Huckle and Sterling (1996) argued that management education, which prepares managers for future times and beyond, must come up with a fine balance between the skills and techniques needed for the improvement of environmental performance within business. Additionally, the practice should also be in retaining the required changes, in order to prepare managers for continuously changing paradigm of sustainable enterprise, considering the future existence. A portion of that paradigm may come up with a commitment for continual learning with a deed of welcoming the challenges for change and becoming able to envision the future with a critical analysis of the present. Although we are aware that many university nowadays offering courses on graduate and undergraduate level with regards to sustainability education, especially in ‘social issues in management’ or ‘business and society’, some universities are trying to educate the managers holistically about ecological issues. Some among these, offer courses with strict focus on “environmental management” or propose a provision of joint degrees between the school of management or business and the school of natural resources or forestry (ULSF, 2014). Many of these kinds of efforts are smaller, new and experimental through which academic bodies try to cross-pollinate management concepts with the consideration of ecological aspects by encouraging management students for taking environmentally oriented courses. Although, this job is not that easy particularly in higher education, because at times, even faculties find it (EfS or Education for sustainable Development (ESD)) difficult or inaccessible (Cotton, Warren, Maiboroda, and Bailey (2007)). Thus, considering the exclusive programme oriented view, the significant efforts should also be

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