Sustainable Business Education – A Romanian Perspective

In the light of recent events, like economic “crisis” started in 2008, or notorious Enron scandal, has arisen an increasing demand of ethics courses in universities’ curriculum. If in Western European countries, this process of topics integration like corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, ethics or associated terms, have known an extensive growth, in developing countries, like Romania, its assimilation and design of a new curriculum still remain a challenge. In this paper, I offer a requirement overview of ethics business education in Romania. From the analysis of the CSR integration in the Romanian business, I summarized a set of key topics, which should be found in university curriculums, in order to provide students with skills and knowledge that allow them to manage sustainable businesses. I then looked over five business universities’ curriculum, and tried to identify those key topics, and concluded with suggestions regarding the design of accountability curriculums.