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2024 AOM Annual Meeting

MED

Session: 1688: Social Responsibility and Sustainability

1688: Ready to Tackle Sustainability Issues? Business Students’ Knowledge of Sustainability (16059)

Monday, August 12, 2024
16:45 – 18:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
Location: Hyatt: Michigan 1A
Session Number: 1688
Paper Session
Orientation: Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/Ed43bE
The integration of sustainability has been a burgeoning topic in the field of management education. While business schools have been integrating themes of ethics, responsibility, and sustainability into curricula (i.e., processes) for more than four decades, little is known about business students’ knowledge of sustainability (i.e., product). In this research we aim to fill this gap by analyzing business students’ scores on The Assessment of Sustainability Knowledge (TASK). We explore business students’ knowledge of sustainability by subject and type of knowledge. Our results indicate that for almost every subject, business students’ knowledge of sustainability is less than that of their peers (except for ‘Microeconomic Considerations, Business, & Industry’). Business students have more knowledge about ‘Current State and Trends’, but have less integrated knowledge about sustainability (i.e., ‘Causes’ and ‘Effects’). We also analyze influences on business students’ sustainability knowledge. Our results demonstrate that taking sustainability-related courses has a significant positive effect. While a moderate level of self-reported sustainability knowledge was positively correlated with TASK score, an expert level was negatively correlated. Congruent with the results of other studies, we found female students exhibit higher attainment of learning outcomes in the RME context. We discuss the implications of these findings for the future of management education.

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