1st Edition

Responsible Management Education and Business School Practices Walking the Talk

By Wolfgang Amann Copyright 2025
172 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Beyond researching and teaching responsible management, business schools should aspire to walk the talk. They ought to become role models and responsible organisations themselves. Focussing on the original UK and Ireland institutions who committed to this initiative formally by becoming signatories, this book considers how this role-modelling behaviour has been applied. Based on a number of... Read more

1 Introduction; 2 Preliminary Literature Review; 3 Methodology; 4 Empirical Results and Emerging Grounded Theory; 5 Secondary Literature Review; 6 Discussion; 7 Limitations and Implications; 8 Conclusions – Do Business Schools Walk the Talk?

Biography

Wolfgang Amann is professor of strategy and leadership at HEC Paris. In addition to designing and delivering executive education seminars worldwide for more than 20 years, he advises senior leaders and holds several boards assignments. He previously served as dean of the Complexity Management Academy, Executive Director and Executive Academic Director of the Goethe Business School at the University of Frankfurt, Executive Director of international degree programmes at the University of St. Gallen and also as the main project director for the foundation of the EBS University of Business and Law. He also led a think tank unit on long‑term corporate development at Daimler and founded a trading company for environmental technology with offices in Japan, China, Germany and the US.