Working Group on Fighting Poverty, a Challenge for Business & Management: ��PRME UKI Working �Group World Tour

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Al Rosenbloom

Milenko Gudić

Carole Parkes

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Anti-poverty Working Group: Origin Story

• CEEMAN Research was presented at the 1st PRME Global Forum (2008)
• Manuel Escudero, Head of the PRME Secretariat, was impressed
• Ask Al and Milenko if they would like to develop the first PRME Working Group: Poverty, A Challenge to Management Education

Anti-poverty Working Group Mission

• “In our role as advocates, we will
• Work with business & management educators, researchers and other professions committed to integrating poverty into the business curriculum
• Create opportunities for multi-stakeholder discussions
• Foster discussions that lead to tangible results
• Facilitate a global repository for innovative curricular approaches and learning methods that embed poverty deeply in business and management education”

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Our Approach to the Topic of Poverty

• Multidimensional
• Absolute and relative poverty
• Includes the issue of inequality and vulnerability
• Challenges to global prosperity

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Our Membership Profile

• 230 members
• from 193 institutions
• in 63 countries
• with members teaching in most management disciplines
• as well as in cognate disciplines such as political science, social anthropology, development studies, international relations

Our Approach is to Work

• “Within” 🡪 Working Group membership
• “Between” 🡪 other PRME Working Groups, Regional Chapters and other RME stakeholders
• “Around” 🡪 the world

Our Working Group Work Methods

• Internal/External Open and Continuous Dialogue
• Collaboration
• Partnership
• Focus
• Share and collaborate with our stakeholders

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Conferences

Our Commitment to Students

Our Most Recent Survey Research: Students�

Resulting in this Scholarly Article

Anti-Poverty Toolkit

• First of its kind online resource totally devoted to poverty reduction
• Jumpstarted by Tay Keong Tan, Radford Univ., and a student team
• All open-sourced resources: 502 artifacts
• Dynamic, evolving and changing
• Envision a network of contributors

Users

Toolkit Home Page

https://jenkinew.wixsite.com/anti-povertytk

The World Might Feel Like This

Yet Here is Our Working Group’s Enduring Commitment

• “To work on the issue of poverty alleviation until discussions of poverty are deeply embedded in all levels of management education worldwide. Then we will disband.”

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MILENKO GUDIĆ

WHY integrate poverty into management education?

• Poverty, human rights and responsibilities (case study), Gary Lynch-Wood
• Land lease – an inclusive approach to fighting poverty (case study), Val Lowman
• Slum toursim and ts controversies from a management perspective, Fabian Frenzel

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HOW to integrate poverty into management education?

• Explication as a method to access and enhance practitioner and faculty learning, Val Lowman

Integrating sustainability into business and management practice

• Gender, poverty and leadership: The case of Chibok girls, Roni Ajao et al
• The UN Global Comact and the governance of situated firms, Gary Lynch-Wood

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Integrating sustainability into management education

• Responsible education in a context of sustainable development – Co-creating a pedagogocal framework for participatory reflection and action, Svetlana Cicmil, Richard Eccestone, Katie Collins
• The PRME Curriculum tree – A framework for resposnible management education in undergraduate business programs, Alex Hope
• Work-based learning – Students solving sustainable challenges through strategic business partnerships, Petra Molthan-Hill, Fiona Winfield, Jerome Baddley, Susan Hill

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Global champions of sustainable development

• The role participatory community in Ireland, Edgar Bellow (France)
• The University for a Common Good and Grameen Calledonian College of Nusring in Bangladesh, Alec Wersun

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Struggles and successes in the pursuit of sustainable development

• The Sustainable Development Goals, the ICT industry and ICT4D Research, Martin Wynn and Peter Jones

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Financial freedom for all – Maximizng wealth with minimal means

Responsible management education research (RMER) conferences - CONCEPT

• Collaborative initiative
• “Talk the walk” concept
• Conference co-design process
• Rotating venues (Anti-poverty WG and DACH Chapter)
• PRME “flagship project”

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Responsible Management Education Research (RMER) Conferences - HISTORY

• 2014 - Chur, Switzerland
• 2015 – Cairo, Egypt
• 2016 – Krems, Austria
• 2017 – Curitoba, Brazil
• 2018 – Cologne, Germany
• 2019 – Jönköping, Sweden

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• 2020 – Chur, Switzerland
• 2021 – Suzhou, China
• 2022 – Innsbruck, Austria
• 2023 – Lisbon, Portugal
• 2024 – Berlin, Germany
• 2025 – Belgrade, Serbia, 21-23 October

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Responsible Management Education Research (RMER) Conferences - FORMAT

• Parallel (track) sessions
• Abstracts, extended abstracts, work-in-progress, full papers
• Plenary sessions
• keynote speakers, panels, roundtables
• Workshops & Meetings
• Poster sessions
• Publications (special issues, books)

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CAROLE PARKES

UK Perspective Relative & Absolute?

Joseph Rowntree Foundation Reports

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• More than 1 in 5 people in the UK (22%) were in poverty in 2021/22 – 14.4 million people. This included:
• 8.1 million (or around 2 in 10) working-age adults
• 4.2 million (or nearly 3 in 10) children
• 2.1 million (or around 1 in 6) pensioners.

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https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2024-the-essential-guide-to-understanding-poverty-in-the-uk

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Interests & Activism

Social Inclusion

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Modern Slavery

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Sphere of Influence

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Examples

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• https://www.fircroft.ac.uk

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• https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/ModernSlavery

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Giving Hope Changing lives: Birmingham’s Social Inclusion Process�

• Inclusive Economic Growth
• What is the role of Business?
• What are the implications for management education?

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THANK YOU

right2al@comcast.net

milenko.gudic@gmail.com

carole.parkes@winchester.ac.uk