External facilitators of sustainable management education (EFSUMEs) and their role in promoting sustainable management education in higher education

Abstract

A growing number of organizations outside academia promote sustainability in education and research of business schools through a variety of activities. We call such organizations - previously orphaned by sustainable education research - external facilitators of sustainable management education (EFSUMEs). The chapter classifies EFSUMEs into four broad categories: those that provide normative guidance, those monitoring, those networking, and those enabling resource provision opportunities. Many EFSUMEs are national, and we mostly focus on US- and UK-based institutions. But others are global, such as the United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education (UN PRME), which seek to address a lack of engagement with sustainability in business schools. The chapter argues that external facilitators of sustainable management education are needed to support paradigm change in education, and it subsequently reviews some of the major EFSUMEs and their activities in the effort to raise the profile of sustainability through ranking, research, and pedagogic endeavors.