Book launch: Practicing Responsibility in Business Schools – Implications for Teaching, Research, and Innovation

About the book

Promoting more responsible action in relation to business sustainability, this book addresses the increasing discomfort among faculty members and wider society as to how business schools prepare students for the future. Reflective and inspiring, it seeks to motivate the necessary action which may be a small but crucial catalysts to solving challenges posed by increasing globalisation, migration, economic development, changing demographics, and cultural exchange.

Contributors: Bjørn T. Asheim, John Bessant, Bernard Burnes, Rune Todnem By, Stewart Clegg, Matthew Coffay, John Arngrim Hunnes, Maria Therese Jensen, Jan Erik Karlsen, Gorm Kipperberg, Fumi Kitagawa, Jon P. Knudsen, Thomas Laudal, Sigrun Marie Moss, Reidar J. Mykletun, Espen Olsen, Torunn Skåltveit Olsen, Antigoni Papadimitriou, Lila Skountridaki, Knut Sogner, Marte C.W. Solheim, Ragnar Tveterås

Program

Chair of the session: Vice-dean of research, Professor Ragnar Tveterås

• Short welcome speech by Vice-dean of research, Professor Ragnar Tveterås.
• Dean, professor Ola Kvaløy.
• Head of Department, Associate Professor Silje Haus-Reve.
• Professor Espen Olsen, initiator of the book project and author of chapter 7:  Academic burnout. Causes and consequences.
• Professor emeritus Bjørn Terje Asheim, book editor and author of introduction and chapter 1: How to ‘fix’ the bad capitalism: an analytical framework for purposeful action.
• Associate professor Thomas Laudal, book editor and author of introduction and chapter 13: Sustainability in the business school syllabus: mind the gap.
• Professor emeritus Reidar J. Mykletun, book editor and author of introduction and chapter 5: New insight regarding the ageing workforce: time to close the knowing-doing gap.
• Professor Gorm Kipperberg, author of chapter 14: An introspective essay on the virtues of teaching environmental economics to business students.
• Professor Ragnar Tveterås, author of chapter 15. Research-based innovation for sustainable development: the case of aquaculture.
• End of seminar by Professor Ragnar Tveterås.

Questions may be posed (English or Norwegian) after each presentation.