G5 Doctoral dissertation (article)
Organising responsible management education : examining the processuality and possibilities towards planetary well-being (2023)
Vastuullisuus kauppatieteiden koulutuksessa : prosessuaalisuuden tarkastelua ja reittejä kohti planetaarista hyvinvointia

Aaltonen, V. A. (2023). Organising responsible management education : examining the processuality and possibilities towards planetary well-being [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Jyväskylä. JYU dissertations, 728. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-9853-0

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Aaltonen, Valtteri A.

eISBN: 978-951-39-9853-0

Journal or series: JYU dissertations

eISSN: 2489-9003

Publication year: 2023

Number in series: 728

Number of pages in the book: 1 verkkoaineisto (80 sivua, 32 sivua useina numerointijaksoina, 4 numeroimatonta sivua)

Publisher: University of Jyväskylä

Publication country: Finland

Publication language: English

Persistent website address: https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-9853-0

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Open Access channel

Abstract

This qualitative article-based dissertation examines responsible management education in Finnish business schools. Two articles in the dissertation apply thematic analysis to data consisting of 46 qualitative interviews with administrative personnel, teachers, and researchers in the faculties of Finnish business schools, as well as study guides from Finnish business schools. The third article conceptualises education for planetary well-being. My thesis is built on the premise that responsible management education in academic institutions is a processual phenomenon, and I investigate this from three perspectives. More specifically, in the research articles I show: 1. how authenticity and becoming authentic is an important process of embedding responsible management education placing emphasis on parallel style of process theory, 2. how recognition of rhythms of organising is an example of processuality that can be called recursive, and 3. how the ontological and pedagogical dialogue of education for planetary well-being is a way to develop conjunctive processuality both in the practice of management education, and in the theoretical pluralism towards interdisciplinary encounters. In addition, I provide managerial suggestions aligned with the new theorem for humanity which is presented in article 3: Responsibility for planetary well-being is the new measure of humanity.

Keywords: schools of economics and business administration; commercial sciences; tertiary education; management education; sustainable management; responsibility (properties); well-being; sustainable development; processes; organisational theories; doctoral dissertations

Free keywords: responsible management education; planetary well-being; organisation studies; rhythm; process theory

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VIRTA submission year: 2023