THE STRUCTURAL VIEW OF ECOSYSTEM-BASED CURRICULUM FOR BUSINESS SCHOOL

In the last two decades, the term ecosystem has extensively become a topic of discussions beyond the field of biology. Businesses alike are transitioning from traditional boundaries or models, formed in silos, into an ecosystem approach. This inevitable change should be addressed by business schools as they play a pivotal role in creating future business leaders. Business schools should be able to remodel their curriculum in order to follow and comply with the evolving era that now apparently leads to the ecosystem approach. To date, such studies on how to design and develop this kind of curriculum lack robust foundations and provide little guidance for business schools. Our study makes several contributions. Firstly, we will provide a more detailed understanding of whether the existing models of curriculum possess adequacy into the needs of learning through an ecosystem approach. Afterward, we develop a structural model of the ecosystem-based curriculum for business school. The structural view of the ecosystem-based curriculum is represented by a new model called SOV (Skills, Orientation, and Knowledge) Model (Nasution & Arnita, 2018). This model is aimed to create a flexible curriculum structure that allows business schools to connect with different disciplines and simultaneously redefine their roles according to the current business situation.