Business schools are - at least in the public eye - key representatives of management education. Substantial material exists which describes how business schools are performing, including increasingly critical voices concerning their performance over the past decade. Interestingly, we find very little available material concerning the wider landscape of management education, in contrast to the wealth of information and critical analyses on business schools. Despite this lack of information, the vision is not limited to business schools but rather addresses the whole management education landscape, defining and developing key roles its various players can fulfill. The 50+20 vision seeks to define areas of responsibility and opportunity, identifying clear roles which management education can play in order to assume responsibility in contributing to the creation of a society and world worth living in. These roles can be embraced by any player involved in management education, including corporate universities, consultancies, executive training centers, vocational training, think tanks or research centers - as well as business schools and management departments within the larger universities. Thus far we examined what is needed in society and the world, and what different players in the field of management education can contribute to make the world a better place. But what about our own stakeholders? We engaged with key representatives of our broader community to better understand how various stakeholders interrelate and influence each other in the complex system of management education. During our retreats we shared and developed points of view with members of this community as equal partners. The global survey, the resultant discussions and the integration of new members into our visioning process stirred very different feelings towards these people. Our shared experience led us to identify a potential paradigm shift from a more mechanical "stakeholder involvement" to a "community engagement" approach: an emotive, whole-person collaboration similar to an animated family discussion. The perspectives and expectations of our community point toward a very different model of management education. These views further shaped our thinking as we continued to study the challenges of the world, the economic system, business, leadership and management education. In the process we developed a sense of tapping into the higher consciousness of the broader global community concerned with the future of management education. From this larger field, a new vision slowly emerged, outlining a new type of management education.

This article continues from Part I (in the last issue of The European Business Review) and provides insights into two critical domains of the 50+20 vision: a) the perspectives of stakeholders of management education (students, alumni, civil society, the business community, NGOs, and management scholars and administrators), and b) the collaboratory as the essence of the 50+20 vision.

Along with policy proposers and individual voters, key stakeholders play a crucial role in shaping the socio-political acceptance of energy policy. Understanding a broad landscape of energy stakeholders’ views and practices thus should be a central theme in energy transition research. The Energy Strategy 2050 (ES2050), a sweeping energy transition policy package in Switzerland, was adopted in 2017. Concrete policy goals implied by ES2050 are yet to be implemented. Although there is a large body of social acceptance studies focusing on individual voters, we have a relatively scant empirical understanding of how stakeholders in this domain perceive the policy goals and how perceptions are linked to their organizational characteristics. To elucidate Swiss energy stakeholders’ perceptions on key action targets implied by recent energy policies in Switzerland, we analyzed data from our original survey with 364 organizations. We examined their views on concrete policy goals related to electric mobility, deep geothermal energy, wind energy, hydropower, and planned phase-outs of renewable energy subsidies. When asked to rate how realistic these goals appear to them, the majority of the stakeholders responded negatively. Furthermore, our findings indicate that, despite the considerable diversity and the overall pessimism in their feasibility perceptions, those that consider goals to be realistic are more likely to be active in the media. This is a concerning finding as the public might receive a biased impression via the media about the level of consensus among the stakeholders, who could, at times, be seen by the public as experts on the topic.

Transforming today's energy systems in industrialized countries requires a substantial reduction of the total energy consumption at the individual level. Selected instruments have been found to be effective in changing people's behavior in single domains. However, the so far weak success story on reducing overall energy consumption indicates that our understanding of the determining factors of individual energy consumption as well as of its change is far from being conclusive. Among others, the scientific state of the art is dominated by analyzing single domains of consumption and by neglecting embodied energy. It also displays strong disciplinary splits and the literature often fails to distinguish between explaining behavior and explaining change of behavior. Moreover, there are knowledge gaps regarding the legitimacy and effectiveness of the governance of individual consumption behavior and its change. Against this backdrop, the aim of this paper is to establish an integrated interdisciplinary framework that offers a systematic basis for linking the different aspects in research on energy related consumption behavior, thus paving the way for establishing a better evidence base to inform societal actions. The framework connects the three relevant analytical aspects of the topic in question: (1) It systematically and conceptually frames the objects, i.e. the energy consumption behavior and its change (explananda); (2) it structures the factors that potentially explain the energy consumption behavior and its change (explanantia); (3) it provides a differentiated understanding of change inducing interventions in terms of governance. Based on the existing states of the art approaches from different disciplines within the social sciences the proposed framework is supposed to guide interdisciplinary empirical research.

Decarbonizing energy production is a crucial lever for mitigating climate change. Despite impressive learning curves in relation to renewables, and high levels of socio-political as well as market acceptance, implementation is proving difficult due to a lack of local acceptance. A better understanding of the drivers underlying social acceptance is essential for helping policymakers and project developers craft new strategies for managing processes at the local level, and thus supporting the implementation of low-carbon policies. With this thesis, I increase understanding of the factors underlying social acceptance of renewables by focusing on the role of affect in the implementation of wind, solar and geothermal energy projects. I present recommendations to project developers and policy makers for better integrating energy projects into local communities, and highlight to researchers the importance of measuring affective factors, in addition to cognitive factors, to advance energy acceptance research. In the first paper, I explore peoples affective reactions to wind energy and the impact of the latter on local attitudes towards wind energy projects. I find that affective evaluations of wind energy differ between mild and strong opponents. The results show that policymakers and project developers should not be blinded by the vocal opinions of strong opponents but pay more attention to those who have mixed feelings about the technology (i.e., the silent majority). In the second paper, I examine the role of installation size and affect in forming attitudes towards solar energy. Results reveal that when comparing solar and wind energy installations of similar sizes, the stronger preference for solar energy decreases to a similar level as that of wind energy. Policymakers may thus encounter comparable challenges with large-scale solar to those associated with wind energy projects. The study also shows that affect is especially important in shaping peoples attitudes in the case of large-scale installations. In the third paper, I investigate the role of seismic risk of deep geothermal energy on affect, emotions, and attitudes towards shallow and deep geothermal projects. Results show that being informed about geothermal energy can positively impact peoples affect about the technology. They also show that a spillover effect of seismic risk awareness on perceptions about shallow geothermal projects is identifiable in terms of affect and emotions, but not through attitudes, highlighting the importance of measuring affective factors in addition to cognitive factors in energy acceptance research.