UN SDGs: Disruptive for Companies and for Universities?

Kurz, Rudi

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21154-7_14

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“…A theme that has been accelerated somewhat due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is how universities contribute to environmental sustainability and responsible business practices (Sa and Serpa Accepted to Studies in Higher Education 2020). This pervades all missions and activities of a university, where universities are beginning to responding to this driver in different ways such as adopting UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) to creating more sustainable campuses, to being active participants in PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) (Kurz, 2020;Priyadarshini and Abhilash 2020). Much remains unknown on universities role in aiding sustainability.…”

Section: Universities Role In Promoting Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Extending the university mission and business model: influences and implications

Miller

Cunningham

Lehmann

2021

Studies in Higher Education

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Over the past 20 years, universities have been faced with sustained change, driven by external factors. This has led to the evolution of the teaching and research mission and the creation and rise of third mission. Such mission extension has led to emergence of entrepreneurial universities which has seen a move from traditional research and teaching business models, to business models which incorporate a much wider range of activities, to meet stakeholder demands as well as sustaining and growing universities in the era of intense national and international competition. This special issue extends knowledge by providing novel insights into the multidimensional antecedent contextual influences, consequences and implications of university mission expansion. We also provide a foundational research agenda which will help guide future research exploring the changing and expanding university missions and business models.

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Section: Universities Role In Promoting Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Extending the university mission and business model: influences and implications

Miller

Cunningham

Lehmann

2021

Studies in Higher Education

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“…Consideration of social factors such as local context, reluctance in technology application, and awareness is crucial for inclusive action [41]. Recent literature recognizes the relevance of encouraging multi-stakeholders participation and collaboration among key actors to support pathways of sustainable development with digitalization [67][68][69]. However, the unclear roles and responsibilities and silo-based inertia lead to a lack of integrity in the implementation process for SDGs [68,70].…”

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Mindful Application of Digitalization for Sustainable Development: The Digitainability Assessment Framework

Gupta

Rhyner

2022

Sustainability

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Digitalization is widely recognized as a transformative power for sustainable development. Careful alignment of progress made by digitalization with the globally acknowledged Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is crucial for inclusive and holistic sustainable development in the digital era. However, limited reference has been made in SDGs about harnessing the opportunities offered by digitalization capabilities. Moreover, research on inhibiting or enabling effects of digitalization considering its multi-faceted interlinkages with the SDGs and their targets is fragmented. There are only limited instances in the literature examining and categorizing the impact of digitalization on sustainable development. To overcome this gap, this paper introduces a new Digitainability Assessment Framework (DAF) for context-aware practical assessment of the impact of the digitalization intervention on the SDGs. The DAF facilitates in-depth assessment of the many diverse technical, social, ethical, and environmental aspects of a digital intervention by systematically examining its impact on the SDG indicators. Our approach draws on and adapts concepts of the Theory of Change (ToC). The DAF should support developers, users as well policymakers by providing a 360-degree perspective on the impact of digital services or products, as well as providing hints for its possible improvement. We demonstrate the application of the DAF with the three test case studies illustrating how it supports in providing a holistic view of the relation between digitalization and SDGs.

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“…In these efforts, principles such as "educating and empowering students to be leaders who impact the world sustainably, translating research and teaching into practice, using the campus as a living lab, institutionalizing best practices in sustainable operations, and amplifying impact by sharing successes with others" are already taking their place in the sustainability plans of leading universities such as Harvard (Harvard University, 2019). This transformation, with no doubt, also requires a strategy for faculty development since new content and methods necessitate retraining of faculty members as well as incentives to support research on sustainable development (Kurz, 2020).…”

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Education for Sustainable Development in Qatar

Sever

Tok

2022

Gulf Studies

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This chapter examines Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Qatar by scrutinizing the actors, initiatives, and policies at global and national scales. The study presents an overview of Qatar's national policy on integrating sustainable development into the education system and highlights nation-specific characteristics. The chapter further analyzes major formal, informal, and non-formal educational learning spaces in Qatar which have been harnessing national policies, global trends, and local specificities to effectively serve Qatar National Vision 2030 as well as Qatar's commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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UN SDGs: Disruptive for Companies and for Universities?

Cited by 8 publications

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Extending the university mission and business model: influences and implications

Extending the university mission and business model: influences and implications

Mindful Application of Digitalization for Sustainable Development: The Digitainability Assessment Framework

Education for Sustainable Development in Qatar

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