This study aims to investigate existing sustainability-related curriculum of business schools within Greater China and take China and Taiwan these two nations as examples for further comparison. Based on a review of current literatures connected to sustainability relevant topics in the ¡§literatures review¡¨ section it gives an overview of existing related discussions and the present circumstances of sustainable development of academic studies. The ¡§research design and methodology¡¨ section describes the research issues in detail and explains practical implement procedures for studying sustainability-related curriculum of sampled business schools in Greater China countries by a web-based content analysis method. Furthermore, this study indicates the findings from the collection information and gives suggestions for future researches in this area.
There are 206 business schools within Greater China investigated by this study. The significant findings of this study include (a) 82% of business schools in Greater China provide sustainability-related courses indicating that there is a trend in Greater China business schools toward building sustainability-related education into schools¡¦ curriculum, (b) there is difference between China and Taiwan¡¦s business schools in terms of sustainability-related course number per business and their course arrangement, (c) business schools in China and Taiwan have partially overlapping in course content and instruction method of sustainability-related curriculum, (d) but obviously China lacks of CSR related courses in business schools.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0824111-224928 |
| Date | 24 August 2011 |
| Creators | Chuang, Hsiu-ting |
| Contributors | Jim Wu, Min-hsin Huang, Kevin Huang, Wen-hsiung Wu |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0824111-224928 |
| Rights | user_define, Copyright information available at source archive |
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