“…Previous findings mentioned the need of entrepreneurial universities to conceptualize and use innovative educational models to embed international strategy within educational processes from value chain and also articulate those processes in charge with effectively managing stakeholders' relationship [29,30].…”
Section: Sustainable Development and Educational Implicationsmentioning
Abstract:Seeing that the prosperity of people and society is possible with the aid of sustained and inclusive economic growth of all countries and regions, the sustainable development of our world has gained the particular attention of a wide range of decisional factors; civil society, the business sector, and the scientific community. Education has a decisive impact on changes in the way that societies are coping with national, regional, and global challenges and opportunities brought by sustainable development. The paper addressed the lack of capacity of higher education institutions (HEIs) to integrate the principles and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning, which hampers the capability to act as an entrepreneurial university. Embarking on the path of sustainable development goals (SDGs) requires HEI to design, launch, implement, and customize specific processes architecture to govern the advance of the sustainability approach. The authors applied the process scoping diagram to capture and conceptualize the educational model needed to guide the HEI through the process of change in its daily operations. The SIPOC method (Supplier, Input, Process, Output, Customer) was applied and with the aid of Visio software tool, the processes relationships were articulated and embedded in the educational model of HEI. Finally, the authors shared their views on the scalability of the model, which may be customized and harmonized in accordance with different HEI's circumstances and priorities.
“…Previous findings mentioned the need of entrepreneurial universities to conceptualize and use innovative educational models to embed international strategy within educational processes from value chain and also articulate those processes in charge with effectively managing stakeholders' relationship [29,30].…”
Section: Sustainable Development and Educational Implicationsmentioning
Abstract:Seeing that the prosperity of people and society is possible with the aid of sustained and inclusive economic growth of all countries and regions, the sustainable development of our world has gained the particular attention of a wide range of decisional factors; civil society, the business sector, and the scientific community. Education has a decisive impact on changes in the way that societies are coping with national, regional, and global challenges and opportunities brought by sustainable development. The paper addressed the lack of capacity of higher education institutions (HEIs) to integrate the principles and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning, which hampers the capability to act as an entrepreneurial university. Embarking on the path of sustainable development goals (SDGs) requires HEI to design, launch, implement, and customize specific processes architecture to govern the advance of the sustainability approach. The authors applied the process scoping diagram to capture and conceptualize the educational model needed to guide the HEI through the process of change in its daily operations. The SIPOC method (Supplier, Input, Process, Output, Customer) was applied and with the aid of Visio software tool, the processes relationships were articulated and embedded in the educational model of HEI. Finally, the authors shared their views on the scalability of the model, which may be customized and harmonized in accordance with different HEI's circumstances and priorities.
“…Wu and Parkvithee [25] used content analysis to study the influence of macroenvironment factors and internal factors on the competitiveness of enterprises. Fleaca et al [26] focuses on the internal factors and processes of the enterprise by using the functional analysis technique to study the competitiveness of the enterprise. For the contractor, Zhou [27] discusses the relationship between sustainable management and contractor competitiveness and holds that contractor competitiveness mainly includes enterprise information ability, enterprise strategy ability, and enterprise wealth ability.…”
With the planning and progress of the construction of the trans-Eurasian high-speed rail (HSR) network, it becomes an important issue for Chinese contractors to enter the European HSR market. Facing the world's most competitive contractors and their high technology levels, Chinese contractors will need to know their advantages and disadvantages, so as to make necessary improvements. In this study, contractors for HSR are divided into two groups: construction contractors and rail equipment suppliers. In order to evaluate the competitiveness of HSR contractors, a Grey-BPNN model that combines the grey relational analysis and backpropagation neural network (BPNN) is proposed. e Grey-BPNN model is expected to analyze the overall competitiveness of Chinese contractors in the European HSR market and provide informative decision support for them. e study results show the following: (1) in the field of HSR construction, the competitiveness gap between the top-tier Chinese contractors and the most competitive international contractors is small. Chinese contractors' competitive advantages lie in medium-and low-technology-level projects, with a strong development potential. However, they highly depend on Chinese domestic market and lack in intangible resources, like management ability and market development ability; (2) for rail equipment suppliers, China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) ranks among the top-tier leaders of the international market. CRRC's greatest competitor in the European HSR market is Siemens, and CRRC is much more competitive than others in the sustainable development capability. However, CRRC needs to increase the quantity of patents and Research and Development (R&D) expenditures in transportation. As a weak transportation patent holder, CRRC has a potential risk of getting intellectual property litigations in the European HSR market.
“…In order to address the toughest sustainability issues in HEIs are required a thoroughly organizational change to coherently incorporate sustainable development strategy into daily operations. Entrepreneurial universities conceptualize and use innovative educational models to embed international strategy within educational process from value chain and also articulate those processes for effectively managing stakeholders' relationship [35,36]. Customer) method from Six Sigma approach which helps scope the work to understand the process for aligning HEI's strategy with SDGs [37].…”
Section: Sustainability Issues and Process Thinking Approachmentioning
Abstract:The sustainable development of our world has gain particular attention of a wide range
28Visio software tool to articulate processes relationships embedded in the educational model of HEI.
29The benefits relied on the organized view of the work processes needed to be performed to
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