Engaging with the contradictions of capitalism: teaching ‘sustainability’ in the business school

Title: Engaging with the contradictions of capitalism: teaching ‘sustainability’ in the business school
Creator: Wright, Christopher; Nyberg, Daniel
Relation: The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education p. 468-481
Relation: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315852430
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2016
Description: We live in an era of environmental and social crisis. Humanity’s inventiveness has over the past two centuries created unimaginable wealth for a small part of the world’s population; however, this has come at a huge environmental cost in terms of biodiversity loss, ocean acidification and climate change – degrading the very ecosystems upon which we depend as a species. In order to be relevant in the future, business schools need to play a central role in confronting this most critical of issues; however, much of what passes for ‘sustainability’ education remains wedded to a defence of the system that has generated this crisis – free-market capitalism. Naïve best-case scenarios are promoted to justify continuous economic growth and consumption, albeit in a marginally less unsustainable fashion. In this chapter we argue that we are facing a far more profound sustainability challenge.
Subject: sustainability; education; economic; business
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1423753
Identifier: uon:37973
Identifier: ISBN:9780415727372
Language: eng
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