Prosocial and Pro-environmental Outcomes of Higher Education in the Post-COVID World

This presentation seeks to uncover if prosocial and pro-environmental outcomes of higher education in business and economics could be associated with business school activities in the field of Responsible Management Education (RME). These could include the teaching of business ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and related subjects, as well as business school research and different practical ways of involving business schools in showing their commitment to RME. The presentation focuses on the UN PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) and how their implementation could support the prosocial and proenvironmental outcomes of higher education in business and economics. Recent and forthcoming research on the prosocial and pro-environmental outcomes of higher education in business and economics is reviewed, and based on the research results, the question of the 'new normal' in (business) ethics is posed: how should business schools frame their RME-related activities in the world, and to what extent are they currently being re-shaped by the challenges of the COVID pandemic and threats to the global, rules-based international order?