The role of universities in developing interdisciplinary action research collaborations to understand and manage resilient social-ecological systems

Manring, Susan L.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.07.010

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“…In contrast, business programs favouring the culture of profit maximization can actually contribute to decreasing the students' identification of importance for sustainability issues (Lämsä et al, 2008;Piper et al, 2012). For these reasons, universities must establish themselves as catalysts in favour of sustainability (Lozano, 2006;Lozano et al, 2013), by increasing their capacities in educating and training students to act as partners and leaders for sustainability initiatives (Manring, 2014;Waas et al, 2010).…”

Section: Gender Differences By Education Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender differences in customer expectations and perceptions of corporate social responsibility

Calabrese

Costa

Rosati

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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The literature on business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability includes many studies on gender differences, however the results are often contrasting. In particular, there has not yet been full agreement on the role and significance of gender differences in customer expectations and perceptions of responsible corporate conduct. An extensive review of the research on the subject reveals that the published studies have not dealt with the substantive significance of gender differences, and as a result, the size of such differences is unknown. The current study analyses both the statistical and the substantive significance of gender differences in customer expectations and perceptions of corporate responsibility, also examining the influence of age and education. The analysis is carried out on a remarkably large sample of 908 clients, pertaining to 12 of the largest Italian banks. The overall resultsshow that there is a small substantive difference between women's and men's average expectations, with women showing higher average values than men. This result holds generally true with variation of education levels and age groups. Young females show the highest average values of expectations, and the significance of gender differences decreases with age. In contrast, the perception of corporate social responsibility does not show significant gender differences, either at the general level or when the analyses are repeated by education levels and age groups. The paper introduces the use of a standardized measure of effect size for analysing the substantive significance of gender differences in customer expectations and perceptions of corporate social responsibility. This novel approach increases results reliability and, accordingly, the effectiveness of company or policy maker strategies in designing, planning, implementing and assessing sustainability initiatives.

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Section: Gender Differences By Education Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender differences in customer expectations and perceptions of corporate social responsibility

Calabrese

Costa

Rosati

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Institutions regularize life, support [cultural] values and produce and protect [shared] interests." Furthermore, as much as SDGs are important and necessary, they also ignore planetary vandalism [26,27] and the powers which constrain resource use around the world [28]. Orr [27], borrowing from Wendell Berry's words compares these vandals to citizens.…”

Section: Problematizing the Current Local-global Environmental Resourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Orr [27], borrowing from Wendell Berry's words compares these vandals to citizens. These vandals are highly educated professionals who seek to maximize their utility (fulfilling their fiduciary duty) at the expense of people and the environment [26]. The word 'professional' makes it self-explanatory that these individuals are highly trained and qualified.…”

Section: Problematizing the Current Local-global Environmental Resourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They are neither ignorant nor uneducated but are highly aware of the adverse effects of their techno-scientific, military, political, pseudo-ethical and managerial maneuvers but nonetheless put profits before people and planet. They muster strategy and ignore ethics and they may also be trained in some of the best universities in the world [26,27]. The pedagogical and ethical implications are that such individuals in key positions switching to sustainable posture (i.e., people and planet before profits) have the potential to bring about seminal changes in our quest for global environmental sustainability.…”

Section: Problematizing the Current Local-global Environmental Resourmentioning

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Making Resource Democracy Radically Meaningful for Stakeowners: Our World, Our Rules?

Ahen

2019

Sustainability

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This paper has a three-fold purpose: to challenge the current conceptualization of firm-stakeholder engagement, to popularize ‘allemansrätten’, the Scandinavian social innovation tradition for environmental value creation and environmental governance for ensuring ecological balance, and to introduce the concept of usufructual rights and the tutelage of natural resources for promoting human dignity. We underscore the deficiencies in the current stakeholder paradigm by pinpointing the specific essential catalysts that move the stakeholder theory to a new paradigm of a universal stakeownership. This is a quest to ensure the preservation and sustainability of natural resources and life support systems within specific institutional orders. We employ an adaptive research approach based on the Finnish/Nordic ecological case with a focus on the concept of ‘everyman’s right’: Everyone has the freedom to enjoy Finland’s/Scandinavia’s forests and lakes but with that also comes everyman’s responsibility to preserve the country’s nature for future generations. We argue that uncritically valorizing the universalized position of the current understanding of stakeholdership, with its flourish of contradictory and inaccurate characterization of global sustainability, retroactively aborts our ecological ideals from the uterus of preferred futures at the expense of humanity as a whole for the benefit of a few speculators and profiteers. Thus, we are woven into an ecological and economic tapestry whose present and future the current generation is accountable for in the era of universal stakeownership for a crucial evolutionary adaptation. This, however, cannot come about without fundamentally ‘democratizing’ resource democracy from the grassroots and questioning the global power structure that decides on the distributive effects of resources.

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“…NAS (2004) identifies three main external drivers of IDR: (1) the inherent complexity of nature and society, (2) the need to solve societal problems, and (3) the development of new 'generative' technologies. Many justify the need for IDR by explaining that the built, natural, and human systems that make up our world are so complex that they cannot be fully understood by a single discipline (Manring 2014). Furthermore, one simply cannot cleanly partition these complicated systems into separate pieces and understand their behaviour piece by piece within separate disciplines.…”

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Integrating disciplinary contributions to achieve community resilience to natural disasters

Davidson

2015

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems

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Community resilience to natural disasters is a complex social problem that can benefit greatly from truly interdisciplinary research (IDR). While funders and universities frequently endorse interdisciplinarity, much of what actually happens can best be described as multidisciplinary, that is, parallel and additive rather than integrated and synergistic. Moving beyond that is harder than it might initially seem. Doing so requires understanding both the benefits of and barriers to its successful implementation. Benefits include better addressing questions at disciplinary intersections; providing more cohesive, useful recommendations to practitioners; improving assumptions in disciplinary studies based on input from other disciplines; and facilitating idea sharing across analogous parts of the problem, such as different hazards. Barriers include institutional systems that discourage researchers from engaging in IDR, and disciplinary differences that make it difficult to do. The paper concludes with thoughts on how community resilience research can more fully realise the potential of IDR.

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The role of universities in developing interdisciplinary action research collaborations to understand and manage resilient social-ecological systems

Cited by 36 publications

References 40 publications

Gender differences in customer expectations and perceptions of corporate social responsibility

Gender differences in customer expectations and perceptions of corporate social responsibility

Making Resource Democracy Radically Meaningful for Stakeowners: Our World, Our Rules?

Integrating disciplinary contributions to achieve community resilience to natural disasters

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