ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the need for sustainability to be incorporated into management education by incrementally integrating sustainability into all aspects of the current curriculum through the inclusion of activities that foster systems thinking and critical thinking. It considers a revolutionary design for a new and separate MBA that addresses sustainability by incorporating existing discourses critically and reflexively. Since its inception in 1908, the MBA has proliferated. More than 700 business schools in the USA offer MBA programmes, conferring more than 100,000 degrees annually. The popularity of the MBA with students appears to be its ability to attract a premium in the labour market. Very few MBA programmes incorporated environmental and social sustainability themes with environmental electives or subjects commonly regarded as 'stand-alone' units or as aspects of a specialised degree. Reviewing the reasoning behind the structure of the MBA reveals many crucial epistemological errors. The epistemological error that management is a value-free, functionalist activity is deeply embedded in MBA programmes.