University social responsibility – theory vs. practice

Buchta, Krystyna; Jakubiak, Monika; Skiert, Małgorzata; Wilczewski, Adam

doi:10.15611/pn.2018.520.02

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“…Social participation is an important means for universities to realize social responsibility and promote strategic Philanthropy and also a critical determinant to establish interaction with local community. Through community participation, universities can utilize their professional knowledge and resources to cooperate with local community to solve local problems, promote community development, and bring practical advantages to local community (Buchta et al, 2018). At the same time, local community can offer valuable suggestions to the universities to further realize their social responsibility (Roos, 2019).…”

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Research on Critical Factors in University-Corporation Social Responsibility

Yeh,

Chung,

Hong

2024

Advances in Management and Applied Economics

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This study investigated three factors of strategic philanthropy, social impact, and social participation in university-corporation joint implementation of social responsibility. This study employed Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to systematically analyze complex issues of social responsibility. The participants included enterprise and university staff who used to carry out social responsibility projects, and 20 valid questionnaires were collected. Synthesized critical factors from literature included policy benefit, social impact, and community participation, which were further divided into five sub-phases, including fifteen criteria in total. Finally, based on the importance, factors that influenced university and corporate joint implementation of social responsibility were ranked and discussed on their priority. This study expects to provide practical suggestions to university and corporate joint implementation of social responsibility projects. Keywords: Strategic philanthropy, Social impact, Community participation, University social responsibility, Corporate social responsibility.

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Research on Critical Factors in University-Corporation Social Responsibility

Yeh,

Chung,

Hong

2024

Advances in Management and Applied Economics

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“…Therefore, students are encouraged to participate in local community service-learning programs to promote health and wellbeing in rural and remote areas to reduce inequality in access to medical resources. Students will tackle challenges in a social context, improve critical thinking, problem-solving ability, resilience, self-efficacy, and emotional competence [4,20,21]. The mechanism of attitude change can be referred to as self-generated persuasion based on reflective practice through social participation in the courses, which promotes personal development [22].…”

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“…The USR Manifesto was launched in 2017 by the Higher Education Sprout Project in universities in Taiwan. This USR project aims to encourage universities to come up with humanities-oriented projects that consider local needs, provide local benefits for local connections, develop the local environment, solve problems facing the world, and improve the quality of life [7,20]. Five major themes were developed: Local Action and Connection, Industrial Collaboration, Environmental Sustainability, Food Safety, Long-Term Care, and other Social Practices.…”

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“…An important issue of social responsibility research is measuring the effectiveness by examining stakeholders' quality of life and the social impact created by the USR program [20,24]. In response, educators have explored theoretical and structural concepts or models that can be integrated with participatory curriculum to enhance students' understanding of social responsibility, attitudes, awareness, and environmentally sound decision-making [25][26][27][28].…”

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The Literacy-Based Scale for Measuring Reflections on a University Social Responsibility Curriculum: Development and Validation

Hung

Huang

Wang

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IJERPH

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University Social Responsibility (USR) enhances educational development and the impact of universities on society. As a stakeholder in USR, it is imperative to develop a comprehensive literacy scale that reflects the development of students' citizenship in social engagement. Thus, this study aims to develop and validate the Health Promotion Literacy-based Scale for students in USR (HPLS-USR). A total of 200 students from USR with an average age of 19.27 participated in the study. The Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used to verify the scale’s construct validity. Twenty-two items were maintained in EFA with an internal consistency Cronbach’s α of 0.92. Construct validity was supported by EFA results, confirming that the four-factor structure of the 22-item scale (personal growth, responsibility of citizenship, social interaction, and intellectual growth) have reasonable correlations to each other, explaining 61.83% of the variance in the scale. The Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin index values of 0.908 and Bartlett's Test of Sphericity (p = 0.001) verified the normal distribution of the EFA and the adequacy of the EFA sampling. These items achieved adequate factor loadings ranging between 0.44 and 0.82. This study demonstrated that the HPLS-USR has satisfactory construct validity and reliability in measuring students' literacy abilities developed in USR participation.

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“…In this regard, the review is useful for mapping current management performance in that research field and identifying further research areas not yet studied [19]. The review adds to the mostly qualitative and case-based research in this area, reporting on implementation approaches [19][20][21] or discussing factors of success [17,22,23], by proposing a pattern for the assessment and management of social performance issues in HEIs.…”

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A Matter of Responsible Management from Higher Education Institutions

Roos

2019

Sustainability

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Higher education institutions (HEIs) are influential social institutions which disseminate knowledge, promote innovation, and educate future decision-makers. The increasing awareness of HEIs as social actors has increased the pressure on them to accept and act upon their social responsibility. Processing this responsibility requires a structured management approach. The little attention given thus far to management performance and structured steering processes of social responsibility in HEIs marks the research gap the present study is focused on. This article provides a systematic review of scientific and academic publications, applying the concept of Social Performance after Wood (1991). The study aims to combine different research and modeling approaches to examine individual elements of social performance along the dimensions of processes of social responsiveness and outcomes of institutional behavior. With this approach, the study aims to answer the question of how HEIs assume their responsibilities as social institutions. The results show that observable outcomes of social behavior in the academic environment reflect a broad understanding of different approaches. By clustering the encoded literature into processes and outcomes, the study structures the fragmented body of research reflecting the various characteristics of the higher education sector.

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University social responsibility – theory vs. practice

Cited by 3 publications

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Research on Critical Factors in University-Corporation Social Responsibility

Research on Critical Factors in University-Corporation Social Responsibility

The Literacy-Based Scale for Measuring Reflections on a University Social Responsibility Curriculum: Development and Validation

A Matter of Responsible Management from Higher Education Institutions

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