There is abundant evidence that RME is (so far) a largely unfulfilled promise. While business schools have been active in adding organizational ""bells and whistles"" (dedicated courses, institutes/centres), the core of their research and teaching activities still appears largely immune to the...

Purpose – Business schools appear to be slow adopters of responsible management education (RME), though the rhetoric of RME is visible throughout the sector. The purpose of this paper and the accompanying ones in this Special Issue is to address this apparent gap between substance and image by...

Purpose – In the future, the legitimacy of business schools will no longer be in question, nor will their vocation to participate in training the élite (especially of companies) alongside institutes which, in various countries, train top Civil Servants. But this context, which dominant...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present details of this special issue, that has as its theme: “Business school futures: evaluation and perspectives”. Design/methodology/approach – The Guest Editors have assembled a set of papers presented at recent AACSB/EFMD meetings to...

Purpose – Over the past years, the teaching of third sector management and corporate social responsibility in business schools has been characterized by two main features: it has become widespread, and the assumption that a company's moral behavior has a financial correlate was abandoned. It...