Facilitating Shared Understanding of Business Responsibility

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.210809.015How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Responsibility 1, SDG 2, learning 3, process 4

Abstract

Responsibility, as a crucial notion in pursuing the SDGs, is an important theme on the education development agenda in business schools around the world. Our study focuses on responsibility as mindset instead of extensive knowledge base and assumes the development of shared understanding of responsibility among participating actors as the main target for responsibility education. Based on empirical data from a master’s level business course our research paper shows how a responsibility mindset among business students can be facilitated through the creation of shared understanding. More specifically, we aim to answer the following research questions: How to facilitate the creation of shared understanding for a responsible mindset in higher business education? Our findings point at the inherently dynamic and dialogic nature of shared understanding of business responsibility. Creating shared understanding of responsibility is not a linear learning process but the continuous iteration of (re-)creating individual and shared understanding. Shared collaborative learning enables individuals to continuously connect and scrutinize their understandings (discipline specific knowledge) with a bigger picture of responsibility (other disciplines’ specific knowledge). That way, business leaders become responsibility agents who embrace responsibility as a mindset with a collective, and continuously evolving (i.e., never finished) nature.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Anne Keränen
AU  - Pauliina Ulkuniemi
AU  - Jan Hermes
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/09
TI  - Facilitating Shared Understanding of Business Responsibility
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Transformations and Innovations in Business and Education (ICTIBE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 102
EP  - 107
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210809.015
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210809.015
ID  - Keränen2021
ER  -