The Territorial Dimension: The Component of Business Strategy that Prevents the Generation of Social Conflicts

Fontana, Alejandro; Sastre-Merino, Susana; Baca, Maritza

doi:10.1007/s10551-015-2712-3

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“…Finally, local criteria present wide variability in the obtained results. Some countries such as Colombia, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom are aware of the importance of including local criteria in the procurement procedures to mediate equity concerns and economic and social development (Kaye et al, 2012); however, these criteria are rarely considered in countries such as Spain, Chile, Argentina, or Peru whose economic scenarios in recent years have encouraged the presence of social conflicts associated with the construction industry (Fontana et al, 2017;Palomares et al, 2017).…”

Section: What Are the Main Social Criteria? (Q1)mentioning

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Social sustainability criteria in public-work procurement: An international perspective

Montalbán-Domingo

García-Segura

Sanz

et al. 2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Scientific literature highlights the need to engage social sustainability more effectively in the construction industry through public procurement. Previous contributions have been focused on establishing strategies and defining guides to encourage and facilitate the inclusion of social criteria in public procurement. However, to reach effective results, the characterization of the current scenario needs to be clarified. With this aim, this research analyzes 451 tendering documents from 10 countries in terms of social sustainability. Three research questions are stated to characterize what the current main social criteria are, how these are defined, and what the differences and similarities are with respect to the inclusion of social criteria in tendering procedures at the international level. To analyze tendering documents, a quantitative content analysis that combines inductive and deductive approaches is developed. Descriptive statistics and statistical analysis based on correspondence analysis and the chi-square contingency table analysis are performed. The results show a lack of metrics to assess social sustainability objectively, the predominance of health and safety as the main social criteria that are included in public procurement, and the importance of the contract size in the number of social categories considered in procurement procedures. However, the main result of this research is focused on showing the important role that the variable "country" plays when the behavior regarding the inclusion of social sustainability is compared at the international level since significant differences are found between Anglo-Saxon and Spanish-speaking countries. Policies should be implemented to promote the use of social criteria and metrics in the award of projects and in the evaluation and monitoring of social performance in the construction industry.

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Section: What Are the Main Social Criteria? (Q1)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social sustainability criteria in public-work procurement: An international perspective

Montalbán-Domingo

García-Segura

Sanz

et al. 2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Indigenous knowledge systems and worldviews may essentially speak to the need for compatibility and overcoming both moral and philosophical differences about the way the world should work, which is germane to alliance success in the mainstream context. This is not an easy process to navigate considering the governance styles of corporations and communities that often breed conflict (Fontana et al 2017). Moreover, while power imbalances and aspects of control in the mainstream literature suggest that the attributes of organizational size, age, and economic strength may impact upon the processes undertaken, these same strengths may end up as liabilities when applied to an Indigenous context and not fully transferrable to the emerging field (for example, see Gallagher 2012 for a long list of legal outcomes where the small and disadvantaged communities have toppled the large and munificent corporates).…”

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Strategic Alliances in Firm-Centric and Collective Contexts: Implications for Indigenous Entrepreneurship

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How might diverse and often conflicting knowledge and belief structures and practices be mobilized into legitimate approaches for people looking to address the need for heightened responsible and sustainable entrepreneurial action by business organizations; humanizing the role of business in development? To answer this question, we explore two previously unconnected but aligned streams of literature: (i) work on strategic business alliances in general (R1); and (ii) work on corporate/Indigenous community partnerships specifically (R2). A systematic literature search identified 300 papers on the topics in total. We selected 39 general and 23 Indigenous-specific papers for review using a guiding classification matrix to determine principal themes and concepts. Both streams of literature were reviewed, and an approach was developed to identify areas where the empirical observation of Indigenous partnerships provides a contribution to the theory and practice of Indigenous entrepreneurship within the realm of strategic alliance formation, and vice versa. The paper concludes with a discussion of dissimilarities in the two streams of literature and maps out avenues for future research into strategic alliances involving corporate responsibility and sustainability (CRS), approaches based on Indigenous belief and value systems, and Indigenous entrepreneurship.

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“…The productive transformation of territories in response to SDG must be supported by institutional policies that promote the creation of alliances and networks involving the participation of all the agents involved [35]. In this respect, a number of authors suggest that territory should be understood as a "socially concerted development project" or "shared resource", giving CSR a territorial vision [30].…”

Section: Territorial Social Responsibility (Tsr): Sustainable Regions and Corporate Involvementmentioning

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“…CSR has become an organizational competitiveness factor that can have a long-term impact in the areas in which it operates, developing mutually beneficial relations with the community and improving the public image of companies [27]. Furthermore, the inclusion of territorial vision as an element of CSR can help to avoid the generation of conflicts between business and society [35]. As explained by Tantalo et al [13], the implicit social obligations in relation to environmental, people (society) and economic considerations and issues have a voluntary nature, depending on the enterprise's capability to integrate them, and must be perceived as an instrument for value creation.…”

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Measuring Territorial Social Responsibility and Sustainability Using the EFQM Excellence Model

2021

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Sustainability and social responsibility are goals that are currently aimed for by companies, entities and institutions as well as national and international agendas. In a globalized and highly connected world, the achievement of both goals must be pursued. This means more than mere compliance with agendas approved by national and international agencies; it means that all of these entities, each in their own field and area of responsibility, become co-responsible for their own social, environmental and economic situation. Because of this co-responsibility, their decisions and activities must contribute to the deployment of a jointly responsible and sustainable model of innovation, development and social transformation. In this context, this article aims to propose a model based on the principles of total quality management that will make it possible to explore the degree of territorial social responsibility and sustainability linked to the companies and institutions of a territory. The validity of this model is based on the application of the model of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) and its applicability to all types of organizations. The empirical validation was carried out in the specific region of Girona (Spain) with the participation of the University Social Responsibility (USR) Chair of the University of Girona (UdG).

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The Territorial Dimension: The Component of Business Strategy that Prevents the Generation of Social Conflicts

Cited by 10 publications

References 31 publications

Social sustainability criteria in public-work procurement: An international perspective

Social sustainability criteria in public-work procurement: An international perspective

Strategic Alliances in Firm-Centric and Collective Contexts: Implications for Indigenous Entrepreneurship

Measuring Territorial Social Responsibility and Sustainability Using the EFQM Excellence Model

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