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A three-year initiative to develop CSR teaching materials and curriculum ideas for mainstream degree and MBA courses has kicked off as part of a series of European research projects launched last month by a group of business schools.
The project is the first of seven CSR programmes lasting up to three years begun under the auspices of the European Academy of Business in Society (Eabis). Researchers will develop materials for degree and executive courses that will help ‘mainstream’ the topic in higher education.
Laura Tyson, dean of the London Business School, which will carry out the project, said it had been designed to ‘embed corporate responsibility issues into the core of management education’, which she said paid scant attention to CSR at present.
Nine further schools will lead research on six other projects as part of the €1m ($1.3m, £690,000) programme, which is funded by IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Shell and Unilever.
There are two other three-year projects: a study of the links between the social values of companies and their financial success, to be carried out by Cranfield School of Management (UK), SDA Bocconi (Italy) and Vlerick Leuven Gent School of Management (Belgium), and research into stakeholder dialogue, to be led by the University of Applied Sciences and Administration in Zurich.
The seven projects represent the first wave of research undertaken by Eabis, a three-year-old alliance of companies and business schools. Eabis will also be involved in a €1.9m CSR research programme announced by the European Union in late 2004 (EP6, issue 5, p12) that will, in part, focus on responsible business practice.
Results from the one-year projects and initial findings from the three-year projects are expected in spring 2006.
The project is the first of seven CSR programmes lasting up to three years begun under the auspices of the European Academy of Business in Society (Eabis). Researchers will develop materials for degree and executive courses that will help ‘mainstream’ the topic in higher education.
Laura Tyson, dean of the London Business School, which will carry out the project, said it had been designed to ‘embed corporate responsibility issues into the core of management education’, which she said paid scant attention to CSR at present.
Nine further schools will lead research on six other projects as part of the €1m ($1.3m, £690,000) programme, which is funded by IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Shell and Unilever.
There are two other three-year projects: a study of the links between the social values of companies and their financial success, to be carried out by Cranfield School of Management (UK), SDA Bocconi (Italy) and Vlerick Leuven Gent School of Management (Belgium), and research into stakeholder dialogue, to be led by the University of Applied Sciences and Administration in Zurich.
The seven projects represent the first wave of research undertaken by Eabis, a three-year-old alliance of companies and business schools. Eabis will also be involved in a €1.9m CSR research programme announced by the European Union in late 2004 (EP6, issue 5, p12) that will, in part, focus on responsible business practice.
Results from the one-year projects and initial findings from the three-year projects are expected in spring 2006.
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