Abstract
In the last few years, policymakers have underlined the need for new soft and hard skills about corporate social responsibility (CSR). The main debate about CSR education has been driven by the 2030 Agenda, which explicitly recognized Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) as having a pivotal role. In particular, many academics started to develop qualitative and quantitative studies to evaluate the integration of CSR contents in business schools’ curricula. The paper aims to contribute to the existing debate through the analysis of the contribution provided by Italian HEIs to CSR Education. In particular, we adopted qualitative methods to evaluate the specific contribution provided by Economia Aziendale scholars.
Highlights
Encouraging companies to integrate into their business model sustainable principles represents one of the main challenges for policy makers (Scheyvens et al 2016)
The analysis reveals that the largest part of the sample consists of corporate social responsibility (CSR) courses held by Public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) (88.73%)
The evaluation of the main insights collected in our study was conducted using the empirical data collected in prior studies about CSR Education in Italy (Gulluscio and Torrecchia 2017; Venturelli et al 2019)
Summary
Encouraging companies to integrate into their business model sustainable principles represents one of the main challenges for policy makers (Scheyvens et al 2016). As evidenced by prior corporate scandals, an effective sustainable transition requires an adequate degree of coherence between corporate action and corporate communication (Schoeneborn et al 2020). In this sense, an increasing number of companies started to expand their establishment plan with new functional areas related to CSR topics (Derchi et al 2020)
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