CAMPAIGN AACSB: ARE BUSINESS SCHOOLS COMPLICIT IN CORPORATE CORRUPTION?

Abstract

I recently had the pleasure of working with Diane Swanson on the article that she and Robert Paul published in Volume 10, Number 1 of JIER: “Violations of Ethical Expectations: The Toxicity of Organizational Pain and Some Remedies.” In the course of one of our many conversations, Diane mentioned her current displeasure with the stand on teaching ethics that had been taken by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the activities she had undertaken to encourage the AACSB to change. This sounded like a wonderful subject for a contemporary issues discussion in JIER. I encouraged her to put together a paper that would permit our readership to understand the dimensions of the issues that surround the teaching of ethics within American business schools and the problems confronted by professors who want to give the topic of ethics greater emphasis. This is the result. Charles J. Coleman, Editor