The Effect of the Internal Side of Social Responsibility on Firm Competitive Success in the Business Services Industry

Hernández, María Isabel Sánchez; Gallardo‐Vázquez, Dolores; Barcik, Agnieszka; Dziwiński, Piotr

doi:10.3390/su8020179

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“…In the light of increasing importance of sustainability in the regional context, other research focused on the internal side of social responsibility of organization and set indicators to increase responsible human practices toward effective implementation of sustainability strategy: responsible human resources practices; organizational culture of responsibility; social projects promotion; significant compensation policies and employees' quality of life [15].…”

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Aligning Strategy with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Process Scoping Diagram for Entrepreneurial Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

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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.

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confidence: 99%

Aligning Strategy with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Process Scoping Diagram for Entrepreneurial Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

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“…. " [7]. Additionally, strategic decisions about the motivation of this stakeholder have to be always thoroughly prepared and reasoned.…”

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“…[76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84]. Naturally, to be responsible, the organization must have dynamic mechanisms of dialogue with employees [7].…”

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“…Sustainability typically has been viewed from three perspectives: environmental, economic, and social [3,4], although there are many others. Recently, perspectives on sustainability have been adjusted for different fields of its application, such as in regard to the environmental or green aspects of business [5], corporate social responsibility [6,7], social and cultural conditions [8], responsible research and innovation [9,10], economic progress [11], public health, community and knowledge capacities [12], making in the area of work motivation. A problem, solved in the article, consists of the explanation of selected attributes and components of effective decision making regarding motivation (such as the decision making process performed when/while motivating employees and managers), defined here as a crucial precondition of building the sustainability of organizations.…”

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Responsible Decision making for Sustainable Motivation

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This article examines motivation and the quality of decision making’s effect on motivation as important preconditions for organizational sustainability. The article is focused on an examination of the content and intensity of perceived motivation, and the forms of decisions that were made while motivating people. Motivation (from a theoretical and empirical point of view) is related to crucial processes of human potential development and motivation. The analysis, synthesis and generalization of knowledge related to sustainability, motivation and decision making in human potential motivation are presented in the theoretical part of the article. The empirical part presents the results of sociological questionnaire, focusing on the area of decision making in motivation that was carried out on sample of respondents in the Slovak Republic (n = 500), Poland (n = 390) and Lithuania (n = 226). The results confirm a strong correlation between the level of the motivation and the quality of key processes of development of human potential (leadership, appraisal, communication, and the creation of an atmosphere of trust). In all examined countries and processes, the calculated values of the chi-square test were significantly higher than the table value (level of significance = 0.05). The section describing the results contains a proposed content-componential model of decision making in affecting and building sustainable motivation.

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“…Os autores consideram que uma empresa tem sucesso competitivo a nível regional quando é capaz de atingir uma posição favorável no mercado e obter resultados superiores a seus concorrentes. O sucesso competitivo implica em obter posições melhores do que seus concorrentes por causa de "algo a mais" do que desempenho financeiro (SÁNCHEZ-HERNÁNDEZ et al, 2016).…”

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A relação entre responsabilidade social corporativa, modo de governança e competitividade: um estudo das multinacionais brasileiras.

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Theory and practice demonstrate that companies have taken some initiative to include corporate social responsibility (CSR) in their strategy. However, it is not clear whether these initiatives produce the desired results to increase the competitiveness. In this context, the way to govern CSR actions has been presented as a contextual variable that could explain the success, or even the failure, of CSR initiatives. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the relationship between corporate social responsibility strategy, governance mode of CSR actions and their impact on competitiveness. Previous studies analyze the relationship between governance mode, CSR, and competitiveness-the variables considered in this study-based on secondary data from developed countries and only considering the relationship between two of the mentioned variables. However, this study extends this discussion by collecting primary data on the reality of multinational companies from an emerging country. Additionally, it considered the three variables for analysis, based on the Stakeholder Theory. The methodological approach is quantitative approach.The hypotheses was tested using the Structural Equation Modeling. The software used was the SmartPLS 3.0, which tests the structural model using the ordinary least squares method. The survey was conducted with 144 Brazilian multinationals, using a questionnaire as a data collection instrument. The main hypothesis that presented the positive and significant relationship between corporate social responsibility and competitiveness was confirmed. Regarding the governance mode, it was observed the use of different modes by the same multinational, depending on the characteristics of the CSR action that it developed. However, the moderating effect of the variable governance between CSR and competitiveness was not confirmed. This research will present contributions to the literature through the presentation and test of a theoretical-empirical model that relates three complex variables, in a specific scenario (emerging country multinational companies). It also tested and validated three scales for the Brazilian scenario. As well as, it contributes to the practice, by providing managers a comprehensive view of the possibilities of acting in CSR, how to govern such actions and the returns that this practice can generate.

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The Effect of the Internal Side of Social Responsibility on Firm Competitive Success in the Business Services Industry

Cited by 23 publications

References 78 publications

Aligning Strategy with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Process Scoping Diagram for Entrepreneurial Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

Aligning Strategy with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Process Scoping Diagram for Entrepreneurial Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

Responsible Decision making for Sustainable Motivation

A relação entre responsabilidade social corporativa, modo de governança e competitividade: um estudo das multinacionais brasileiras.

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