ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author takes a particular view on the field of responsible management education (RME) research in four steps. First, he acknowledges the scale and impact of research on RME, highlighting some recent landmark achievements and ways of understanding the field. Second, the author highlights some particular problems that can be drawn, explicitly and implicitly, from recent writing in the field. Third, he presents an example of how the problems suggested in recent writing can play out, by focusing on a selected topic. Specifically, he focuses on moral injury, an experience of the betrayal of one’s fundamental values that leads to ongoing, debilitating anguish. Building on selected illustrations from military and medical contexts, the author considers how moral injury might also be a hazard faced by managers, when people expect them to act responsibly in challenging and constraining contexts after completing an RME program.
