Integral Management for Corporate Social Responsibility

Štrukelj, Tjaša; Peša, Anita Radman; Duh, Mojca

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“…The key role of universities/HEIs in achieving sustainable development implies the importance of integral management and the adoption of a strategic approach to sustainability. That is, it is important that universities/HEIs, like all other for-profit and non-for-profit organisations, apply the knowledge of integral governance and management in their development (long, medium, and short term) and their operations [7,[62][63][64]. The key role of universities/HEIs in achieving sustainable development implies the importance of integral management and the adoption of a strategic approach to sustainability.…”

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“…Since a sustainable organisation is an organisation that conducts sustainable business [65], the authors drew on the knowledge of integral governance and management [62][63][64], from which it is evident that governance and management processes are superior to the business process (i.e., the fundamental implementation process), and it is also evident that governance is superior to management. On this basis, the authors formulated the following research thesis (T): in order to justify the strategic concept of the organisation's sustainability, it is crucial that the organisation develops sustainably, whereby this sustainable development results from its responsible governance (responsible business policy) and management, which also applies to universities/higher education institutions.…”

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“…The selection of the cases for the research followed the most obvious criterion: the authors chose the cases of the universities/HEIs with which they were affiliated. Moreover, to the best of the authors' knowledge, no similar studies on the sustainable development of universities/HEIs have been conducted in Bulgaria, and, in Slovenia, such research is Based on the principles of integral management [62][63][64] and the finding that a sustainability-oriented organisation provides for its sustainable development [5,37,65], the authors concluded that, if sustainability is required in governance and management processes, it must also be reflected in the fundamental implementation process (i.e., core business). In the processes of governance and management, governance must lay the foundation for management.…”

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“…The authors found that, in order to justify the strategic concept of the organisation's sustainability, it was crucial that the organisation developed sustainably, with this sustainable development resulting from its responsible governance (responsible business policy, e.g., mission and core objectives), which confirmed the thesis formulated at the beginning of this study. The models of integral management [1,[62][63][64] show that governance is superior to management, and both are superior to the underlying operational process. Therefore, if the owners (who govern the organisation) guide the organisation in a sustainable way, then managers need to lead it in a sustainable way, and employees need to work in a sustainable way [1,5,7,115].…”

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Strategic Transition to Sustainability: A Cybernetic Model

Štrukelj,

Dankova,

Hrast

2023

Sustainability

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As the importance of the transition to sustainable development is increasingly recognised by individuals, organisations, and society as a whole, there is a growing need to examine its impact at micro-, meso-, and macro-levels. There is an urgent imperative to ensure the sustainability of growing economic inequalities, a degraded environment, and people living in uneven conditions in different societies. The authors, therefore, highlight the strategic role and essential contribution of organisations, and universities/higher education institutions in particular, in achieving sustainable development and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Universities/higher education institutions play a key role in fostering entrepreneurship and innovation, and they form the crucial architecture of contemporary practices in national economies and beyond. Policy makers, university/higher education institution governors, managers, and professors shape students and create new social contexts, and these must be oriented towards sustainability. This paper aims to explore the strategic role of organisations, in particular, universities/higher education institutions, as a key link between personal and social responsibility and, thus, as a powerful enabler of sustainable development. The authors examine the strategic transition to sustainability of two higher education institutions, the University of Maribor and the University of Economics—Varna, and conduct a qualitative case study research to develop a cybernetic model of the university’s/higher education institution’s transition to sustainability, which reflects the organisation’s growing commitment to achieving the Sustainability Development Goals. The model includes seven successive stages: pre-awareness, awareness, focusing, implementation, reaching out, transparency and disclosure, and continuous improvement. The study shows that sustainable development, i.e., sustainability governance, management, and operations, are indispensable for implementing the strategic concept of sustainability in an organisation and for achieving the strategic transition to sustainability as explained in the proposed cybernetic model.

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Section: The Strategic Role Of Universities/higher Education Institut...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Strategic Transition to Sustainability: A Cybernetic Model

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Dankova,

Hrast

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Socially Responsible Culture and Personal Values as Organizational Competitiveness Factors

Štrukelj

Mulej

Zabukovšek

2020

Recent Advances in the Roles of Cultural and Personal Values in Organizational Behavior

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Organizational success factors and thus competitiveness depend on humans, whose behavior depends on their knowledge, values, and circumstances, which also depend on knowledge, values, and circumstances of other humans involved, via organizations or individually. The three selected and briefed typologies of values are more complementary than competing alternatives, since they depend on authors' selected research viewpoints. They neither reflect nor oppose social responsibility. The fourth selected viewpoint covers the process of values' influence on human work/activity. Being based in the dialectical systems theory stressing interdisciplinary creative cooperation aimed at humans' requisite holism, this approach stresses interdependence and holism, which can be attained by responsible persons only. Thus, the values of (individual, corporate, or societal) social responsibility reflect systems approach and behavior that is critical for competitiveness in the contemporary times of Industry 4.0.

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Integral Management for Corporate Social Responsibility

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Strategic Transition to Sustainability: A Cybernetic Model

Strategic Transition to Sustainability: A Cybernetic Model

Socially Responsible Culture and Personal Values as Organizational Competitiveness Factors

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