The Elgar Companion to Management Education and the Sustainable Development Goals

This chapter explores the possibilities of a postcolonial and decolonial approach to management education, as business schools across the globe grapple with ways to include content to address the managerial and organisational challenges posed by the sustainable development goals. The dominant management theories that have been used to address questions of sustainability are inadequate for understanding how Western management knowledge and education has contributed to the crisis of sustainability; and are not relevant for contexts in other parts of the world. How can we do management education differently to foster sustainable ways of doing business and managing organisations? Drawing from the bodies of the postcolonial and decolonial lens it offers a dual means of transforming management education in a way that addresses the inadequacies of current management approaches. Integrating postcolonial and decolonial theory into management education is essential for contributing to social and environmental sustainability.