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Managing Social Responsibility in Universities Organisational Responses to Sustainability

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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 05/2021
Edizione: 1st ed. 2021





Trama

This book explores the concept of university social responsibility, drawing on a wide range of geographical perspectives, such as China and Germany. It also examines the diverse aspirations of universities, from preserving authenticity and safeguarding Catholic values, to embedding sustainability into the community. It provides a storytelling framework for teaching sustainability in management education as an approach to strengthening the social role of universities and showcases how a service-learning approach could promote the engagement of universities within the community.

This book is valuable reading for academics who are researching sustainability management, corporate and organisational social responsibility and other related social sciences. It has interdisciplinary appeal for scholars and serves interesting for practitioners.






Sommario

Foreword by Frank DEN HOND                                                             

Revisiting University Social Responsibility by Loreta TAUGINIENE and Raminta PUCETAITE                                                                                                                      

 

CHAPTER 1                                                                                                             

 

(Re-)Constructing Measurement of University Social Responsibility by Loreta TAUGINIENE & Raminta PUCETAITE

 

This chapter aims to contribute to the development of indicators for measuring university social responsibility (USR). It argues that prior attempts lack conceptual cohesiveness and operational robustness in distinguishing the dimensions of USR and respective items. After two stages of expert evaluation and assessment of inter-coder agreement, we propose a set of 17 items with 62 indicators covering organisational, social, environmental, educational, ethical and economic dimensions of USR. We propose that this framework could be used for continual improvement of university activities by preserving university authenticity, but not immediately taking it as a standard. We also conclude with directions for further research on USR as a multidimensional construct, such as the call for the consolidation of USR evaluation.

 


 

CHAPTER 2                                                                                                     

The IFCU USR Framework: a case of “intelligent” co-creation at the international level by Montserrat ALOM BARTROLI

 

This chapter presents an overview of the collective process by which the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU) produced a Framework for University Social Responsibility (USR) addressed to its member universities.

The Framework allows higher education institutions (HEI) to self-evaluate their performance in the area of USR and aims at becoming an alternative to today’s reference rankings. The latter are not only based on narrowly-defined scientific criteria, but also vehiculate a discourse reproducing hegemonic positions that benefit a small group of big players in the research field. By measuring and, thus, making visible a series of policies and practices governed by the responsibility principle at all institutional levels (governance, environmental sustainability, the university as an employer, the three missions of the university, and identity), the Framework seeks to value manifold aspects set aside in the current competition-led context.

If this initiative echoes the raise of USR recognition in Europe and abroad, it constitutes an example of the challenges inherent to the co-creation of a self-measuring tool at the international level (glocalisation). We analyze thus the two-step process deployed to manage substantial geographical and cultural diversity: a) the co-construction phase, including the mobilization of a worldwide university network, consultative practices involving the creation of a Scientific Committee and a pilot conducted with a sample of eight universities; b) the implementation phase, which relies on an innovative approach based on artificial intelligence (AI) to overcome top-down, static methodologies by proposing a dynamic and contextualized self-evaluation system.

Besides commenting on the challenges of creating a single tool that is relevant in very diverse contexts, we conclude that, for the framework to be adopted by member universities, IFCU will have to deploy a successful strategy of “interessement” within its own network.

 

Keywords: catholic university; social responsibility; evaluation framework

 

CHAPTER 3                                                                                             

 

Evaluating university social contribution: Insights and concepts from Chinese higher education by Xi HONG, Lu LIU, Sara BICE & Hamish COATES

 

This chapter draws on a framework built with reference to international research and experience to examine developing practices in Chinese higher education. As such, the chapter synthesizes theoretical perspectives, contributes an evaluation framework, and articulates contemporary circumstances in the world’s largest higher education system.

The chapter begins by introducing motivating rationales, the contours and frontiers of contemporary research, and the structure of the contribution. This section will as well argue for the value of this field of work, which remains in its formative stages, and link the contribution with broader contexts such as geopolitics, sustainability, and transparency.

The following section integrates existing research to distil an analytical framework, which is evaluative in nature. Emphasis is placed on work in Australia, Japan and the United States given the maturity of such work and its relevance to China. For instance, consideration is given to the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, the Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance, and Japan’s National University Corporation Evaluation. Practice insights from such countries is revealed, as are the rudiments of the framework useful for analyzing the case of China.

Next, therefore, the evaluative framework is applied to review existing and emerging practice in Chinese higher education. Chinese higher education has its own traditions and contexts, has undergone rapid transformation in the last two decades, and is the focus of ongoing national reform. It is essential that universities are aligned in key ways with broader socioeconomic ecosystems, and that stakeholders have an effective and feasible means for understanding and guiding growth. The framework and analysis in this chapter contributes in each of these ways.

In its final section, this chapter fuses the international perspectives with the Chinese experience to contribute a refined means for under





Autore

Loreta Tauginiene is a long-standing academic professional, lately Associated Researcher at Department of Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics in Finland, and formerly Researcher at Institute for Social Sciences and Applied Informatics, Faculty of Kaunas, Vilnius University in Lithuania. She is a part of the editorial board of Journal of Academic Ethics and Journal of Management and Change. She has published over 20 publications on the implementation of social responsibility from the perspective of the management of research performance, university social responsibility, stakeholder engagement, science in society and integrity. Her research interests are academic/research integrity, social responsibility of higher education institutions, public engagement, citizen science and responsible research and innovation.  

Raminta Pucetaite is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher of Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility at Kaunas Faculty, Vilnius University, Principal Investigator of Public Governance research group at Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania and Adjunct Professor of Management, Organizational Ethics and Human Resource Management at Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Finland. Her research focuses on ethical issues in human resource management, research and academic ethics, values management and organisational innovativeness in a post-soviet context.











Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9783030700126

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm Ø 454 gr
Formato: Copertina rigida
Illustration Notes:XIX, 140 p. 6 illus.
Pagine Arabe: 140
Pagine Romane: xix


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