Transition to a hybrid teaching model as a step forward toward responsible management education?
Journal of Global Responsibility
; 13(1):7-20, 2022.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1621774
ABSTRACT
PurposeThis paper aims to investigate how the COVID-19 health crisis could help business schools move towards more responsible management education (RME). Business schools have been extensively blamed in previous crises for not educating their students in a responsible way. The COVID-19 pandemic could be the pivotal opportunity for business schools to regain legitimacy and a wake-up call to accelerate their journey towards RME. The authors aim to outline an illustration of the transition to a hybrid teaching model and how such educational reconfiguration might lead to more sustainable and RME, also beyond COVID-19.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative approach is proposed to analyse and decrypt the challenges and opportunities of a hybrid approach, its implications for the transformation of business schools and RME. This study also includes a state-of-the-art literature review, a specific investigation of the case of ESCP, the European cross-border multi-campus business school, and in-depth interviews with stakeholders impacted by the crisis.FindingsThe health crisis demonstrated the unprecedented capability of higher education to embrace rapid and profound change. Furthermore, the pandemic served as a wake-up call in that it may even have caused the progress of business schools, previously somewhat reluctant, towards more socially responsible and sustainable thinking. Thus, the schools have used the COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity to regain legitimacy and be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.Practical implicationsThe paper pulls together a multitude of suggestions for higher education in general and business schools in particular.Originality/valueCombining two of higher education’s main challenges, namely, digitalisation and sustainability and applying the principles for responsible management education framework to map and analyse the pandemic’s implications, this paper provides a new, compelling and inspiring resource for business schools on their path to a more responsible management approach and education.
Business, And, Economics--Management; Academia; Business, school; COVID-19; Digitalisation; Digital, transformation; Higher, education; Hybrid, teaching; Management, education; Online, learning; Responsible, management, education; Sustainability; Business, schools; Social, responsibility; Qualitative, analysis; Students; Digitization; Education; Reconfiguration; State-of-the-art, reviews; Literature, reviews
Full text:
Available
Collection:
Databases of international organizations
Database:
ProQuest Central
Language:
English
Journal:
Journal of Global Responsibility
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Similar
MEDLINE
...
LILACS
LIS