The “Sustainable Development Goals
(SDG) Teaching Map” and Other
Innovative Teaching Formats
Elisabeth Fröhlich, Marina A. Schmitz, and Silvia Damme
1 Introduction
Responsible management education (RME) is on everyone’s lips, and especially
whilst the world is grappling with the Coronavirus pandemic, the call for value-based
management is getting louder. Global supply chains have completely collapsed in
recent weeks, and the top management teams of most companies have underestimated
the fragility of today’s (business) system. In addition to the human rights and climate
problems that have been discussed in the past years, there is now the demand for
global hygiene regulations and handling the negative effects of continuous overconsumption in the textile sector on sewers and cotton farmers—to name just two of
many challenges and affected target groups. The pessimistic news about not only the
development of the world economy, but also private restrictions associated with it,
make it necessary to approach a possible solution with optimism. The following quote
from the poem “Be an optimist,” by Wayne Visser (2020), seems very appropriate at
this point: “I am optimistic, not because the future is bright but because bright people
are working to make the future better; not because the news is good but because good
people are showing that change is always possible; and not because the world is fair
but because fair people are fighting for justice wherever it is needed.”
E. Fröhlich (B)
Strategic Supply Management, CBS International Business School, Hardefuststr. 1, 50677
Cologne, Germany
e-mail: e.froehlich@cbs.de
M. A. Schmitz · S. Damme
Center for Advanced Sustainable Management (CASM), CBS International Business School,
Hardefuststr. 1, 50677 Cologne, Germany
e-mail: m.schmitz@cbs.de
S. Damme
e-mail: s.damme@cbs.de
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_31
483
(SDG) Teaching Map” and Other
Innovative Teaching Formats
Elisabeth Fröhlich, Marina A. Schmitz, and Silvia Damme
1 Introduction
Responsible management education (RME) is on everyone’s lips, and especially
whilst the world is grappling with the Coronavirus pandemic, the call for value-based
management is getting louder. Global supply chains have completely collapsed in
recent weeks, and the top management teams of most companies have underestimated
the fragility of today’s (business) system. In addition to the human rights and climate
problems that have been discussed in the past years, there is now the demand for
global hygiene regulations and handling the negative effects of continuous overconsumption in the textile sector on sewers and cotton farmers—to name just two of
many challenges and affected target groups. The pessimistic news about not only the
development of the world economy, but also private restrictions associated with it,
make it necessary to approach a possible solution with optimism. The following quote
from the poem “Be an optimist,” by Wayne Visser (2020), seems very appropriate at
this point: “I am optimistic, not because the future is bright but because bright people
are working to make the future better; not because the news is good but because good
people are showing that change is always possible; and not because the world is fair
but because fair people are fighting for justice wherever it is needed.”
E. Fröhlich (B)
Strategic Supply Management, CBS International Business School, Hardefuststr. 1, 50677
Cologne, Germany
e-mail: e.froehlich@cbs.de
M. A. Schmitz · S. Damme
Center for Advanced Sustainable Management (CASM), CBS International Business School,
Hardefuststr. 1, 50677 Cologne, Germany
e-mail: m.schmitz@cbs.de
S. Damme
e-mail: s.damme@cbs.de
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_31
483