Responsible Management Education and Business School Practices

1 Introduction: Persisting signs of unsustainability in a polycrisis world, Business schools as a coping mechanism, yet under fire, Structure of the analysis, 2 Preliminary literature review, Clarification of the purpose and process of a literature review in constructivist grounded theory, Attempt to define a business school, Background of PRME and current status of the research on the initiative, Theoretical lenses on organisational role modelling, Summary of the preliminary literature review and identified gaps, 3 Methodology, Rationale for qualitative research, The case for grounded theory, Choice of interviews as data collection method, Coding approach, Memoing approach, Anticipation and mitigation of ethical issues, Informal resonance-check interviews after the main theorising, Summary and critical evaluation of the chosen research design, 4 Empirical results and emerging grounded theory, Overview of the analysis, Coding process and results, Memo-writing, Theoretical coding and sampling, Integration of categories and emerging constructivist grounded theory, Summary and critical reflections, 5 Secondary literature review, Introduction – towards a nomological net for the secondary literature view, Focus topic 1: Commitment-action gap – towards decoupling 2.0, Focus topic 2: Critical incidents, Focus topic 3: Complexity, Summary, 6 Discussion, Introduction, Comparison of the empirical findings with the primary and secondary literature review, Comparison of the empirical findings with the primary and secondary literature review, Summary, 7 Limitations and implications, Introduction, Limitations, Suggestions for future research on organisational practices in business schools from a PRME perspective, Suggestions for PRME as a global organisation, Suggestions for current and future PRME leads, Suggestions for constructivist grounded theorists, Summary, 8 Conclusions – do business schools walk the talk?