Gilbert Lenssen

Foreword - Bernard Ramanantsoa Prologue: Business Schools As Usual? - Mette Morsing and Alfons Sauquet Rovira PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON BUSINESS SCHOOL LEGITIMACY Business Education - Rakesh Khurana and Daniel Penrice The American Trajectory Creating a Business School Model Adapted to Local Reality - Maria Tereza Leme Fleury and Thomaz Wood Jr A Latin American Perspective The Changing Role of Business Schools as Key Social Agents in Asia - Bernard Yeung and Kulwant Singh Institutional Evolution and New Trends in Russian Management Education - Valery S. Katkalo The Legitimacy and Future of Business Schools in Turkey - Baris Tan European Business Schools and Globalization - Lluis Puges CSR, Business Schools and the Asia Pacific Context - Juliet Roper PART TWO: TOWARDS A NEW LEGITIMACY FOR BUSINESS SCHOOLS IN GLOBAL SOCIETY Business Schools in Society - Alan Irwin, Dorte Salskov-Iversen and Mette Morsing The Distinctiveness of Diversity Design Science as a Reference Point for Management Research - Michael Barzelay and Saul Estrin The National Role of Contemporary Business Schools in Response to the Financial Crisis - Thomas M. Begley and Patrick T. Gibbons Business Schools - From Career Training Centers towards Enablers of CSR - Thomas Bieger A New Vision for Teaching at Business Schools The Future of Business School Research - Muel Kaptein and George S. Yip The Need for Dual Research Methodologies Business Schools' Corporate Social Responsibility - Christoph Badelt and Barbara Sporn Practice What You Preach The Role of Higher Education Institutions in the Fields of Economic and Social Sciences - Guido Tabellini Has It Been Changed by the Economic Downturn? Business Schools in Relation to the Organizational and Ethical Challenges of Systemic Transformation - Adam Budnikowski A Polish Example The New Rigor - Judith Samuelson Beyond the Right Answer PART THREE: BUSINESS SCHOOLS' ROLE IN SHAPING AND TRANSFORMING ETHICAL BUSINESS CONDUCT Responsible Business Education - Carlos Losada, Janette Martel and Josep M. Lozano Not a Question of Curriculum but a Raison d'Etre for Business Schools The Business School of the 21st Century - Valerie Swaen, Philippe de Woot, Didier de Callatay Educating Citizens to Address the New World Challenges The Need for Good Old Principles in Financial Management Education - Eero Kasanen and Robert Grosse PRME and Four Theses on the Future of Management Education - Manuel Escudero A Plea to Business Schools - Robert Strand Tear Down Your Walls Corporate Responsibility and the Business Schools' Response to the Credit Crisis - Nigel Roome, David Bevan and Gilbert Lenssen Epilogue - Alfons Sauquet Rovira, Mette Morsing and Marc Vilanova

This special issue of the Corporate Governance Journal is produced by the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) in close collaboration with ESADE Business School. The journal builds on content and insight from the EABIS 6th Annual Colloquium, which was hosted by ESADE in Barcelona on 20-21 September 2007 and chaired by Associate Professor Daniel Arenas. The 2007 Colloquium sought to investigate the Global Governance paradigm that has emerged in recent years from a wide range of corporate responsibility (CR) initiatives and multi-stakeholder collaborations between companies, governments and civil society addressing governance deficits at global, sectorial, national and regional levels. The conference attracted a multi-stakeholder audience of over 350 representatives from business, academia, policy-making and civil society, including CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners. This editorial paper aims to provide a comprehensive ...

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Abstract: This special issue of the Corporate Governance Journal is produced by the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) in close collaboration with ESADE Business School. The journal builds on content and insight from the EABIS 6th Annual Colloquium, which was hosted by ESADE in Barcelona on 20-21 September 2007 and chaired by Associate Professor Daniel Arenas.

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