Sustainable Business and Management - the Role of Individual, Organizational and Societal Decision Making
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 12141
Special Issue Editors
Interests: decision making; nudging; corporate social responsibility; risk perception
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability and decision making are connected in many ways at individual, organizational and societal level.
Individuals inside and outside business organizations can contribute meaningfully to reach sustainability goals. Individual decision making can be directed toward sustainability by creating a decision environment that enables people to make sustainable choices. How can behavioral science help to promote the concept of sustainability? How can the field of judgment and decision making contribute to encourage such behavior?
In business organizations, reconciliation of economic, ecological and social goals is critical to reach responsible and sustainable modus operandi. In order to make sound decisions considering all these three aspects of sustainability, decision makers must have clear policies, governance structures and methodologies to handle trade-offs and potential value conflicts. How can multicriteria choice models help to achieve the sustainable goals of an organization? How can managers create such processes that facilitate fair and thoughtful decision making in this regard?
Managers and other employees should also look beyond the boundaries of their organization. They have to understand and incorporate the perspectives of their direct and indirect stakeholders—including silent stakeholders such as the environment and future generations—into their decision making when they make responsible and future oriented choices. What tools and processes can support these decisions? How can stakeholders’ opinions be integrated into organizational decision making? How can public participation support business decision making when moving towards sustainability?
In this Special Issue, we invite submissions that address the relationship between sustainable business and decision making. We welcome submissions that offer important conceptual and empirical insights into the intersections of sustainable business and decision making. Research shows sustainability decision making is value-laden and focuses on social action; therefore, papers submitted to this Special Issue may reflect on these values and action.
Dr. Richárd Szántó
Dr. Alexandra Köves
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- judgment and decision making
- sustainability
- sustainable business
- behaviroal economics
- choice architecture
- nudges
- multiattribute choice
- MCDM
- stakeholder management
- public participation
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