Responsible Management Education in Time of Crisis: A Conceptual Framework for Public Business Schools in Egypt and Similar Middle Eastern Context

Abstract

Recent studies show that the adoption of RME scenarios is still a matter of concern for non-western countries ((Mousa et al., Journal of Management Development 38:681–696, 2019), 2021a, 2021b). In this paper, we theoretically propose the potential direction of RME scenarios that business schools in Egypt and other similar cultural context to implement through articulating the main antecedents of RME before and after Covid-19. we used the method of multilevel research by combining different theoretical approaches. As an outcome of our analysis, we developed five propositions which form the main antecedents of RME in Egypt and similar regional Middle East business schools before and after Covid-19.

The post COVID-19 pandemic era: Changes in teaching and learning methods for management educators

“…Thereby providing reliable and trustworthy information that is needed in today's competitive business environment. The COVID-19 pandemic put management educators under stress, due to the need to provide information in a new format ( Mousa, Massoud & Ayoubi, 2022 , pp. 1–11).…”

Winterizing the Egyptian spring: why might business schools fail to develop responsible leaders?

“…This reduces public trust of management education and management educators (Murillo and Vallentin, 2016). However, there is a general understanding in society of the difficulty in finding an easy remedy for the problems in business schools, which, in turn, differ in their orientation (public, private), history, rank, size (number of academics and students), language of instruction, heterogeneity of academic personnel (male/female; senior/early stage), availability of funding and the cultural context in which they work (Murillo and Vallentin, 2016; Mousa et al , 2021).…”

Business and society in the age of COVID‐19: Introduction to the special issue

“…Other researchers (Manuel & Herron, 2020 ) investigated the ethical motivations firms used for their CSR decisions and determined that utilitarianism and deontology led to CSR activities in response to the pandemic. Lastly, in a study of Egyptian business schools, Mousa ( 2021 ) and colleagues (Mousa et al, 2021 ) concluded that business schools can implement responsible management education strategies post COVID‐19 but only after they overcome obstacles of self‐determination, contextuality, and nationalism.…”