Current Trends in Csr and Their Impact on Management Education

Abstract

This paper combines the perspectives gained through some three decades ofexperience in the international automotive industry, academic exploration in the areasof peace and development, with specific emphasis on business and structuralviolence, new business models and long tenn advocacy and participation in thedevelopment of the United Nations Global Compact.While I am a Canadian who lives in Finland, I do spend a great deal of timeworking with business, government, entrepreneurial, civil society and labourorganizations as well as with the academic communities in China, Japan and Korea. Ihave a great appreciation for the overarching philosophies and business approaches inthese countries. In what follows, however, I shall focus on trends impacting theAnglo-American business model. My rationale is that this model still dominates andhas continuous impact on business teaching around the world.