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Sustainability Vision and Practice: The Apparent Gap Between Corporate Leaders’ Pronouncements and the Perceptions of Polish and U.S. MBA Students from Three Universities.

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

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Title Sustainability Vision and Practice: The Apparent Gap Between Corporate Leaders’ Pronouncements and the Perceptions of Polish and U.S. MBA Students from Three Universities.
 
Creator ROSENBLOOM, AL; Brennan School of Business
Dominican University
River Forest, Illinois, U.S.A.
ROSS, DOUGLAS N.; College of Business and Economics
Towson University
Towson, Maryland, U.S.A.
 
Subject sustainability practices; sustainability advocacy; leadership; crosscultural management education
 
Description This study focuses on the CEO-asserted critical need for sustainability in corporate strategy and MBA student perceptions of the extent to which their respective programs prepare them to handle sustainability challenges successfully. Students in one Polish and two U.S. mid-tier MBA programs were surveyed regarding their perceptions of four issues:1) the link between sustainability practices and corporate performance;2) the barriers to embedding sustainability practices in their current job;3) the effects of being a sustainability advocate on their careers; and 4) the efficacy of their MBA programs in fostering leadership perspectives and skills related to sustainability. While students generally agreed on the positive link between sustainability practices and performance, they differed on the other issues. The study discusses the implications of these findings for faculty members who want to close the gap between what CEOs say they need from graduates related to sustainability vis-à-vis the ability of current MBA programs to fulfill that need.
 
Publisher International Association of Jesuit Business Schools
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2018-07-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/jmgs/article/view/2914
10.13185/2914
 
Source Journal of Management for Global Sustainability; Vol. 5, No. 2 (2017); 75-112
2244-6893
2244-6885
10.13185/i256
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/jmgs/article/view/2914/2752
 
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