Ethical Governance for Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

In contemporary societies, higher education institutions face the impact of globalization, which is mainly demanding in imposing and shaping ethical practices. While higher education systems and dynamics cannot be understood apart from this broader context, its primary focus seems to remain as equal as ever: the creation of knowledge-based societies and economies, education and the creation of socially responsible citizens. Against this background, this chapter aims to present and critically discuss the strategies implemented in a higher education institution towards building a culture of integrity. The empirical focus is a small-scale university located in southern Europe, peripheral to prominent universities and major countries.

A review on ethical concerns in big data management

“…For, as Shams and Solima (2019) suggest insights can be developed on how to design, deliver and evaluate stakeholder value based on the verified data. Furthermore while stakeholders-ethics-framework would help towards gaining competitive advantage, organisations should strive for sustainable development, stated prior researchers (Freitas et al, 2019;Lokshina and Lanting, 2018;Steurer et al, 2005). In view of this, stakeholders-ethics-framework is shown to be interlinked to sustainability guidelines (Martin, 2015).…”

“…While the studies above reiterate the need for stakeholders involvement, Chessell (2014) argues that given all involved (the organisation, customers and stakeholders) may have different opinions on what is 'ethical', organisations need to be thoughtful when using the technology, and suggested using an ethical awareness framework that helps in developing ethical policies on usage of analytics and big data. While, Freitas et al (2019) and Nair and Saiz-Alvarez (2019) stressed on the need of ethical governance for sustainable development, Martin (2015) felt firms in the big data industry need to address the ethical issues and problems through creating sustainable industrial practices. Incidentally, Steurer et al (2005) describe the sustainable development-stakeholder relationship management (SD-SRM) perspective as a distinguishing research approach, which could be related to the wider body of stakeholder theory to achieve sustainable development.…”

Advancing understandings on Students’ Mobility as a Tool to reach 2030 Agenda

“…While nothing can be done to change the past, a call for action is needed to change the future. Moreover, there is also an ethical commitment which entails us all for sustainable development in higher-education institutions (Freitas et al, 2019).…”