Unlocking the potential of responsible management education through interdisciplinary approaches

Business schools are crucial to integrating sustainable development into managementthought and practices, thereby promoting a paradigm shift toward responsible man-agement education. Despite many business schools pledging to adopt the UnitedNations' Principles for Responsible Management Education, they have been criticizedfor failing to develop change agents toward sustainability. To fill this gap, this paperdemonstrates how interdisciplinarity can be connected to responsible managementeducation through critical and instrumental perspectives. To this end, we apply aninterdisciplinarity model to 37 Principles for Responsible Management EducationSchools' Reports, using content analysis, text-mining, and network theory tools. As aresult, our findings suggest: (i) a taxonomy of critical and instrumental interdisciplin-ary studies and (ii) a framework of Principles for Responsible Management Educationschools engaged in critical and instrumental interdisciplinarity. The framework wedevelop can serve as a diagnostic and prognostic tool for assessing how interdisci-plinary can improve responsible management education in business schools. Ourfindings contribute to theory advancing research on the intersection of responsiblemanagement education and interdisciplinary approaches.