Sustainability dimensions of knowledge on a signatory business school PRME

Abstract

This paper presents the correlation between the level of knowledge on sustainability of students from FEA-RP / USP, a Brazilian businesses school signatory to the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), and knowledge of the sustainability, environmental, social and economic dimensions. By understanding the important role of higher education institutions in the training of responsible leaders, in 2014 FEA-RP / USP participated in the first round of the international search Sustainability Literacy Test (Sulite) developed by Kedge Business School. We have, as a research problem: what is the influence of the variation of knowledge in the three dimensions of ustainability, in an isolated sense, on the students’ total knowledge of the subject? The results confirm the first hypothesis of this study that determined that the score in the environmental dimension knowledge was associated with the change in the total knowledge on sustainability by students. Other dimensions did not show significant correlations. It is hoped that further studies may shed light on the changes of knowledge in sustainability in accordance with the area of training or education level of students.

Keywords

• Management
• Higher Education
• Sustainability.