Unlocking Student Action? Uncovering Hidden Curriculum-Responsible Management (Un) Learning Dynamics
(2024) AOM Academy Of Management Annual Meeting 2024 — Location: Chicago (3.August.2024)
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- Why does inaction persist in students’ practice of Responsible Management Learning (RML), despite extensive scholarship and long-standing reforms? Our longitudinal, qualitative study of 41 MBA students at four business schools reveals the key role of a two-way relationship between students’ practical beliefs and their school’s Hidden Curriculum (HC), which may or may not match. Specifically, we found responsibility (un)learning to be a process of noticing and reacting, then (dis)engaging, before resulting in responsibility undoing (coerced unlearning), overriding (deprioritizing) or unlearning (deliberate forgetting). Our results uncover the role of the job market and the business school career’s service at/after graduation in this process. We contribute to scholarship, first through our practice-focused operationalization of the HC concept, which extends prior understandings of how the HC works. Second, our introduction of the post-curriculum concept expands the literature’s boundary conditions, suggesting that matters beyond the business school environment are even more critical to students’ RM unlearning as the curriculum itself.
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Le Pontois, S., Solbreux, J., & Foliard, S. (2024). Unlocking Student Action? Uncovering Hidden Curriculum-Responsible Management (Un) Learning Dynamics. AOM Academy Of Management Annual Meeting 2024, Chicago. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/272318