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Fostering Management Education for Professional Integrity: The Case of the Centre for Economic and Managerial Sciences, University of Guadalajara, Mexico

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This chapter seeks to analyze professional integrity as an improvement concept to the actual values and virtues and meaning managerial capabilities and attitudes to assume any professional task. This chapter analyzes a case of management education for professional integrity at the University Centre for Economic and Managerial Sciences, University of Guadalajara. The research method employed is the ethnographic, documental and life’s history, complemented with field work supported by in-depth interviews and analyzed using a comparative method. The outcomes of the research on the application of management education demonstrate that the drama of economic efficiency is centred on a dysfunctional professional integrity. This chapter provides a sound professional philosophy that empowers professionals to act with integrity, increases the probability for long-term success and professional fulfilment. The results provide also the basis to develop a code of conduct and regulation policies to sustain management education for professional integrity which, can positively impact on business culture through influencing the behaviour of key actors.

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    José G. Vargas-Hernández

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    Samuel O.Idowu

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Vargas-Hernández, J.G. (2014). Fostering Management Education for Professional Integrity: The Case of the Centre for Economic and Managerial Sciences, University of Guadalajara, Mexico. In: Yüksel Mermod, A., O.Idowu, S. (eds) Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Business World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37620-7_17

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