Teaching Sustainability through Traditional Wisdom:A Conceptual Framework for Business Studies

Abstract

It is imperative to strive for sustainable ways of designing and managing businesses. The managers need to develop competence to usher the path of business sustainability by understanding the concept and developing suitable strategies that build the framework for business sustainability. Students pursuing studies in Business Administration will hold managerial and leadership positions in the forthcoming years; hence their competence would be an important determinant in the successful implementation of sustainable business practices. This article proposes to explore the Indian scriptures to teach sustainability to students through examples and validations from these texts.

The Pressure of Globalization on Educational Evolution in Emerging Economies

“…Every curricular change implemented in the education system with more much or less necessary training (human resources, materials, time) has led to a number of specific realities, some with opportunities of opportunity, other difficulties [1] Starting from the idea that any restructuring process must be based on a good knowledge of the state of the field of intervention concerned, a summary of the conclusions of the various researches and studies of the last years that have carried out the analysis of the curriculum Romanian [2,3]. Several such conclusions identify difficulties and problems at the general level of written curriculum, others focus on the analysis of the constraints that arise in the application of the curriculum in school practice or on some specific aspects (valorisation of non-formal / informal education in the curriculum, the development of communication skills at the level of compulsory education, curriculum specifics in vocational and technical education, school time as a component of the curriculum) [4]...…”