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Title Systemic Aproach To Social Responsibility: Building And Mapping Sustainable Practices At Ural Federal University
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Authors Belyaeva, Z
Title Systemic Aproach To Social Responsibility: Building And Mapping Sustainable Practices At Ural Federal University
Year 2015
Published
Abstract Universities are playing a very important role in forming the sustainable practices that connect the key players to create shared values with business, governments and society. Academia stands as a role model for the future graduates, moreover recent social and legal developments require Universities to report its social and ecologic responsibilities just like other organizations. Although the existent literature differentiates corporate and university social responsibility, there are still gaps in defining sustainability and social responsibility systemic practices in Academia, especially in international setting. The paper is a research in progress type and looking to formalize the social responsibility and sustainable practices for Ural Federal University based on the analysis of existent practices and research in the global education arena. The first part of the paper is devoted to understanding the current streams in defining sustainable development and social responsibility in Universities in the international setting. The next part suggests methodology review and outlines a suggestion for USR model. The third section describes the state of Ural Federal University sustainable practices internal perception diffusion, its measurement and attempts to map it in the world USR. The methodology includes international literature review, GRI and web-sites content analysis and self-study survey of UrFU internal processes and stakeholders. The results reveal gaps to fulfill for future systemic sustainable development of UrFU.
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