The Impact of the Sustainability Principles on the Strategic Planning and Reporting of Universities. An Exploratory Study on a Qualified Italian Sample
| Autor: | Primiano Di Nauta, Claudio Nigro, Michele Milone, Enrica Iannuzzi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Civil society
Process management 020209 energy sustainability in universities lcsh:TJ807-830 Geography Planning and Development lcsh:Renewable energy sources Exploratory research 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering lcsh:Environmental sciences 0105 earth and related environmental sciences lcsh:GE1-350 Sustainable development Strategic planning institutional communication tools Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants Corporate governance sustainable development goals sustainability commitment lcsh:TD194-195 Content analysis Sustainability strategic plan Business sustainability report agenda 2030 University system |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 18 Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 7269, p 7269 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su12187269 |
| Popis: | Strategic Plans (SPs) and Sustainability Reports (SRs) represent institutional communication tools implemented by universities to demonstrate their adoption of sustainability and sustainable development goals (SDGs of Agenda 2030) as drivers in their strategic planning processes. These tools make the adopted strategies and operations visible and easily understandable to stakeholders, highlighting the university&rsquo s commitment to a new balance between business, environment, and the social sphere. Moving from this premise, with the aim to evaluate the degree of transposition of sustainability and sustainable development principles into the Italian university system, we propose an exploratory research on universities&rsquo institutional declarations, in the form of the SRs and SPs available on their web sites. To this aim, we conducted a content analysis aiming at a preliminary phase of text coding, based on a set of analytical categories&mdash pillars&mdash namely Education and Learning, Research, Operations and Governance, and External Leadership. The work has allowed us to identify: an interesting extent to which the sustainability principles have been transposed into the Italian university system, with particular regard to the third category of Operations and Governance (36% of coded segments in SRs and 32% of coded segments in SPs) a considerable awareness of universities of their key role played on the sociopolitical and economic levels for the diffusion of the Agenda 2030 within civil society. |
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