Prior literature suggests that teaching corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability has led to little development of students' reflexive engagement with the challenges of sustainable development. To shed light on this criticism, we apply sensemaking--as entailing the three stages of scanning for information, interpreting it and…

We review the film "Other People's Money" as a teaching tool for introducing concepts of corporate social responsibility and board governance. The film's climactic shareholder meeting contains two vivid examples of stakeholder theory and shareholder primacy illustrated through the competing election speeches made by the lead characters.…

The authors examined the ethical perceptions of 262 college students. The present study follows prior studies using 10 scenarios that cover four categories: societal responsibilities, personal gains, corporate gains, and ethical principles. The findings indicate that social issues and ethical principles are more important to students, while…

Purpose: This study aims to show how a massive open online course (MOOC) can be used as an educational tool to diffuse specialised corporate sustainability research globally to a broad range of learners. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on insights from the design and implementation of a sustainable fashion MOOC. The MOOC was…

Business law faculty enjoy the privilege to engage in scholarly activities with a practical bent. As business law faculty learn from their reading, thinking, and writing, they can share this learning with their students. Many of these students will earn leadership positions with direct influence on business practices. When scholarship nudges the…

This in-class, 75-minute exercise creates a context for students to observe some of the challenges to cross-functional collaboration and offers insight into processes to achieve more successful outcomes. By demonstrating how a failure by compliance and business operations to work cross-functionally negatively impacts outcomes in the form of…

Purpose: This study aims to present a pedagogical approach that allows students to discuss and debate the differences between two competing models of corporate governance -- the shareholder primacy philosophy and the stakeholder value viewpoint. Design/methodology/approach: This study first presents the conceptual bases for each framework, noting…

Purpose: The study aims to explore, via empirical evidence, executive assessment of Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduates in Nigerian companies. Design/methodology/approach: The research utilized a descriptive research design with structured questionnaire developed from relevant extant literature. Relevant data analysis, including…

Communicating clearly about their socially responsible activities is becoming increasingly important for companies, as a growing number of stakeholders with different goals, knowledge, and language skills seek information on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Furthermore, the ability to communicate clearly is particularly appreciated in the…

In the context of integrating the 2020 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) revised standards on societal impact and the United Nations Development Goals (UN SDGs), this paper provides a detailed guide for developing and implementing four societal impact projects showcasing the design, implementation, student…

The purpose of this mixed-method survey-based study addresses the underexplored area of undergraduate student perceptions of artificial intelligences (AI) impact in academia, specifically within the FCSEI in Romania. This research study will provide comprehensive findings on how AI can revolutionize teaching methodologies, learning processes, and…

Three intrastate universities developed a corporate social responsibility (CSR) simulation in an upper-division, undergraduate online markets and stakeholders class. The simulation engaged students in serving as business leaders in a community devastated by an earthquake. The students selected business leadership roles within the simulation based…

The authors focused on the effect of exposure to business ethics courses on students' perceptions of the linkage between ethics education and corporate social responsibility. Data were collected from 718 students and analyzed using analysis of variance. The findings of this study show that exposure to business ethics courses has a significant…

With the impactful nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, this manuscript describes a teaching case for COVID-19 vaccinations to develop students' knowledge of analytics and supply chain management. The experiential learning activity is developed in the context of an undergraduate upper-level course on descriptive analytics and data visualization. The…

Business adopted a terminology of sustainability to defend, then justify, and finally explain practices that acknowledged resource limitations as inherent in the business environment. Tracing the rhetoric across a half century of business use demonstrates an expansion of the concept of sustainability to encompass managerial attention to finite…