Students' Attitudes Towars Business Education's Role in Addressing Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Issues
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Students' Attitudes Towars Business Education's Role in Addressing Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility IssuesFecha de publicación
2013Editor
International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED)ISBN
978-84-616-3847-5ISSN
2340-1095Cita bibliográfica
M. A. López-Navarro, M.M. Segarra-Ciprés (2013) Students' Attitudes Towars Business Education's Role in Addressing Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Issues. ICERI2013 Proceedings, pp. 1556-1562.Tipo de documento
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In recent years, business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have become one of the
most important topics in business management. In this sense, the training of business students –
future entrepreneurs ... [+]
In recent years, business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have become one of the
most important topics in business management. In this sense, the training of business students –
future entrepreneurs and managers– in these topics is important in order to prepare them to assume
responsible roles in society. A relevant question in this area lies in knowing the extent to which
students actually believe that business studies should educate about ethical and CSR issues.
However, business education literature lacks data on students’ attitudes towards such education.
Along this line, the main objective of this paper is to analyse the attitudes of students toward the role
of business education in preparing them to make decisions affecting social needs. Our study is based
in a sample of 124 Spanish undergraduate business students at the Universitat Jaume I (Spain). We
use the BERSI (Business Education’s Role in addressing Social Issues) scale which incorporates
questions dealing with the value of student learning about awareness of and solutions to social
problems, civic leadership, discrimination, service, and general CSR issues. Firstly, the findings
strongly imply that students at this university are quite positively disposed to the idea that business
education should encompass substantial coverage of social issues. Students tended far more to agree
than disagree with statements in the BERSI scale. Secondly, we find that there are differences
between students’ attitudes toward business education’s role in addressing social issues and what this
education really is. Specifically, the values of these students’ attitudes are higher that their perceptions
regarding that the business education is. These results imply the need to incorporate into the business
studies more social contents. Furthermore, gender was found to have a limited effect upon students’
attitudes toward business education’s role in addressing social issues. [-]
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Ponència presentada a 6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Sevilla, 18-20 novembre 2013
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