There is Good Fishing in Troubled Waters. Use and Abuse Surrounding Employability as Seen from the Perspective of the Social Responsibility of Universities

Merino, Eduardo Salvador Vila; Solbes, Victor M. Martín

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“…Among the strategy applied by the Universities is the application of USR practices such as: guiding the student towards an ethical reflection of the duty to be, in such a way that they become an important actor within the development of their community (Olarte-Mejía and Ríos-Osorio, 2015), establish institutional management policies that allow training a student with ethics and values, restructuring organizational aspects, thematic criteria of student cognition and new lines of research (Martínez-Pichardo and Hernández-Oliva, 2013; Merino and Solbes, 2014), to promote socially responsible behaviors in students related to “job responsibility, volunteer activities, social help, civic responsibility and ecology/environment” (Puerta et al ., 2014).…”

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University social responsibility: bibliometric analysis and research trends

Barrera-Rodríguez,

Echeverri-Gutiérrez,

Redondo-Ramírez

et al. 2023

IJEM

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PurposeThis article develops a review of the university social responsibility literature to identify the most influential countries, authors, journals, and institutions, their structure, and research lines.Design/methodology/approachThe review was carried out from a bibliometric and network analysis of documents published in the Web of Science database.FindingsIn total, 192 documents were found that were scientifically mapped in this field. From the network analysis, four research perspectives were identified: strategic impact management policy, user and its stakeholders, service-learning and its contribution to user, and theories, approaches, and strategies of University Social Responsibility (USR). Finally, the agenda for future research are presented.Originality/valueThe present work carries out a bibliometric and network analysis that seeks to contribute to the literature on USR, identifying its current perspectives and future lines of research.

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University social responsibility: bibliometric analysis and research trends

Barrera-Rodríguez,

Echeverri-Gutiérrez,

Redondo-Ramírez

et al. 2023

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“…The concept of university social responsibility emerged to attend old and new demands for social, political, economic and legal changes, suggested by the declaration of the world conference on higher education, held in Paris in 1998. The statement points to a need to remove the perspective of a university only geared toward economic gains and replace it with a more just, egalitarian and free society (Merino and Solbes, 2014). Some researchers developed studies worldwide to identify models of social responsibility in universities and the perception of professors and students on the subject, such as Dima et al (2013) at the Romanian Universities, Karimi (2013) at the Islamic University, Tetrevova and Sabolova (2010) in the Czech Republic, Nejati et al (2011) in the top 10 universities in the world and Nasongkhla et al (2015) in other countries.…”

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University social responsibility: perceptions and advances

Sousa

Siqueira

Binotto

et al. 2020

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the perception of professors, students, administrative staff and academic directors about social responsibility in four universities of Rio Grande do Norte (RN) – Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The research was carried out in four universities in RN, Brazil. A survey was conducted with 1,318 students, 118 members of the administrative team, 104 professors and 29 academic directors, to whom a Likert-type questionnaire was applied, with 65 items allocated in seven dimensions as follows: organizational governance, human rights, work practices, environment, legal practices, consumer issues and community involvement and development. Exploratory factorial analysis and Cronbach’s alpha were the statistics used to analyze the data. Findings The research showed difficulties in assessing social responsibility aspects because of the lack of discussion and little socialization and debate of the data. Concerning everyday issues such as student service, environment issues, working conditions and local development is an exception because they have explicit opinions and often negative perceptions. Research limitations/implications The data used were self-reported they were subjected to bias, such as self-attribution and selective perception by community members. The lack of a theoretical model of social responsibility to study a non-profit organization. This study offers a theoretical contribution to analyzing six variables in non-profit organizations. Practical implications The data collection instrument also contribute to Brazilian universities can meet the evaluation criteria of higher education institutions in Brazil by Law 10.861/04, which established the national higher education evaluation system. Social implications This contribution allowed the authors to understand, which of them find the most consensus among stakeholders and which are the most contradictory, as well as to promote improvements in the implementation of social responsibility policies. The proposal of the instrument results in concrete actions for the adoption of the university, to accelerate the implementation of ISO 26000 in its statutes. Originality/value The study on social responsibility at universities of RN, Brazil, under dimensions of organizational governance, human rights, work practices, environment, legal practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development is innovative and supports other universities to think their processes and better contribute in training new generations of citizens and professionals.

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There is Good Fishing in Troubled Waters. Use and Abuse Surrounding Employability as Seen from the Perspective of the Social Responsibility of Universities

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University social responsibility: bibliometric analysis and research trends

University social responsibility: bibliometric analysis and research trends

University social responsibility: perceptions and advances

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