PRME Working Group on Anti-Fraud in Management Education

History

The PRME Working Group on Anti-Fraud in Management Education was formed in response to growing recognition across the PRME community that fraud poses a significant threat to responsible management, organisational integrity, and sustainable development. Building on extensive academic research and engagement with practice, the Working Group was established to create a global forum focused on how anti-fraud is understood, taught, and embedded within management education.

Purpose

The group’s purpose is to strengthen how fraud is understood, taught, and discussed within management education globally. Fraud remains a pervasive yet often fragmented topic in business and professional education, frequently treated as a technical or compliance issue rather than a core leadership and governance challenge. The Working Group aims to address this gap by supporting educators in embedding anti-fraud perspectives across curricula, including accounting, auditing, governance, management, ethics, and leadership programmes.

Key challenges include limited integration of fraud education beyond specialist courses, insufficient attention to organisational culture and incentives, and a lack of shared educational frameworks that reflect diverse regional and institutional contexts. By fostering dialogue, sharing research-informed educational resources, and connecting insights from practice with teaching and learning, the Working Group seeks to contribute to the development of responsible leaders capable of recognising, preventing, and responding ethically to fraud risks in organisations and society.

Goals

• Advance responsible management education by positioning fraud as a systemic governance and integrity challenge linked to leadership, incentives, organisational culture, and sustainability.
  
  

• Develop and share educational frameworks and teaching resources that integrate anti-fraud perspectives across business and professional curricula, adaptable to diverse regional and institutional contexts.
  
  

• Strengthen interdisciplinary and cross-regional research collaboration to enhance scholarship and thought leadership on fraud, ethical governance, and institutional resilience.
  
  

• Facilitate structured dialogue between academia and practice to ensure real-world relevance while safeguarding academic independence and critical inquiry.
  
  

Build global anti-fraud literacy among future leaders to support ethical decision-making, institutional accountability, and more transparent, trustworthy organizations.

Research

The Working Group’s research activities focus on advancing understanding of fraud, integrity, and ethical governance in ways that inform responsible management education. Members collaborate on interdisciplinary research that examines how fraud risks emerge within organisational structures, cultures, incentives, and governance systems, and how these issues are addressed in management and professional education. Research outputs are intended to support teaching and learning, including the development of conceptual frameworks, pedagogical models, and evidence-based insights that can be translated into curricula and classroom practice.

The Working Group encourages collaborative research across regions and disciplines, and supports dissemination through academic journals, edited volumes, and international conferences relevant to accounting, auditing, management, ethics, and governance. By linking research with educational innovation, the Working Group aims to strengthen the scholarly foundations of anti-fraud education in alignment with the Principles of PRME.

Engagement Opportunities

Working Group offers a range of opportunities for educators, researchers, and practitioners interested in strengthening anti-fraud perspectives within responsible management education. Planned activities include regular virtual and face to face meetings and roundtables that provide space for knowledge-sharing, peer learning, and discussion of emerging issues related to fraud, integrity, and governance. The Working Group will convene webinars and workshops focused on teaching innovation, curriculum integration, and research-informed educational practice, often drawing on practitioner insights to enrich learning and dialogue. The group may also facilitate reflective dialogues on the emerging and under-examined issues in fraud, education, as the ethical implications of new technologies, evolving organisational forms, and cross-cultural challenges, and governance and integrity. Members will also be invited to engage in thematic discussion groups aligned with specific interests or disciplines. Through these activities, the Working Group aims to build an inclusive, global community that supports collaboration, capacity-building, and sustained engagement in line with the Principles of PRME.

Resource Development

The Working Group supports the development of educational resources that assist institutions in embedding anti-fraud perspectives within responsible management education. Planned resources include case studies, teaching notes, curriculum modules, infographics, videos, and conceptual frameworks designed for use across disciplines such as accounting, auditing, management, governance, and leadership. These resources will be research-informed and, where appropriate, enriched by practitioner insights to reflect real-world contexts and challenges. The Working Group also aims to curate and share collections of good practices and teaching approaches from PRME signatory institutions, supporting peer learning while respecting regional and institutional diversity. All resources are intended to be adaptable, non-prescriptive, and focused on learning and reflection, enabling educators to contextualise anti-fraud topics within their own programmes in alignment with the Principles of PRME.

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Chair

Dr Rasha Kassem, Aston University, UK

r.kassem@aston.ac.uk

Steering Committee Members

Dr Sharif Mohd, New Delhi Institute of Management, India

Dr Manimuthu Arunmozhi, Aston University, UK

Individuals interested in contributing to the PRME Anti-Fraud Working Group are welcome to join by completing the Working Group Member Application form. The Working Group is open to educators, researchers, students, and practitioners from PRME signatory institutions and partner organisations who are interested in advancing anti-fraud perspectives within responsible management education.

Additional information on specific projects, thematic subgroups, and engagement opportunities will be shared with members as the Working Group develops.