Responsible Management Education: A Content Analysis of Strategic Management Textbooks

This paper studies the evolution of teaching corporate social responsibility (CSR) in management education since the United Nation's Global Compact's Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) in 2007. Undertaking the study involved reviewing the history of teaching CSR, the main approaches to addressing CSR in management education as well as the importance of the strategic management course as a capstone course in business schools. The research method used to address the study hypothesis was a content analysis of strategic management textbooks. A sample of forty-one (n= 41) strategic management textbooks was analyzed. The trend in the percent of the textbooks' content related to CSR was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. This study found that content related to CSR in strategic management textbooks has significantly risen since 2007.