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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 10300

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Richárd Szántó

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Department of Decision Sciences, Corvinus University of Budapest, 1093 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: decision making; nudging; corporate social responsibility; risk perception
Dr. Alexandra Köves

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Department of Decision Sciences, Corvinus University of Budapest, 1093 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: ecological economics; sustainability; future studies; decision making

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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Change Management Indicators and Their Applications in Strengthening the Process and Learning Organization Levels
by Mohd Izham Mohd Hamzah, Nurul Sahadila Abd Rani and Mohd Effendi Ewan Mohd Matore
Sustainability 2021, 13(24), 13988; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413988 - 18 Dec 2021
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(1) Background: This study is aimed at determining the strengthening process level, the learning organization level, and the indicator of change level among District Education Offices (PPDs’). This study aims to investigate the perceptions of the Head of District Education Officers and their [...] Read more.
(1) Background: This study is aimed at determining the strengthening process level, the learning organization level, and the indicator of change level among District Education Offices (PPDs’). This study aims to investigate the perceptions of the Head of District Education Officers and their use of change indicators in enhancing District Education Offices and their learning organization practices. (2) Methods: By using a mixed-method approach through an explanatory sequential design, a survey was conducted and 93 Head of District Education Officers throughout Malaysia were selected using the survey method through questionnaire. To identify the respondents, the study employed group sampling and strata random sampling techniques and the data analysis was conducted using the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences software. Then, the qualitative study involved five Head of District Education Officers and two Program Managers who were chosen through purposive and snowball sampling. Through semi-structured interviews, data were then collected, and themes were formulated and analyzed using Nvivo 11. (3) Results: The results of the descriptive analysis show that the strengthening process level, the learning organization level, and the change indicator level in the District Education Office, are all high. Thus, the research findings illuminate six theme of change indicators, i.e., namely, Head of District Education Officers Roles and Responsibilities, Program Manager Roles and Responsibilities, School Improvement Partner+ (SIP+) Roles and Responsibilities and School Improvement Specialist Coaches+ (SISC+) Roles and Responsibilities, Performance Dialogue, Provision Management, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Dashboard and PPD Excellence Rating. (4) Conclusions: This study offers insights into how the PPDs’ can utilize, as a reference for monitoring, the implemented changes in the District Transformation Program, to see if they are on the right track, and also as treatment to deal with any conflicts or issues in the transformational programme. Full article
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Conceptualizing Cuvée Organizations: Characteristics Leading towards Sustainable Decision-Making Practices
by Alexandra Köves, Tamás Veress, Judit Gáspár and Réka Matolay
Sustainability 2021, 13(24), 13672; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413672 - 10 Dec 2021
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This paper discusses the role and responsibility of business organizations in a sustainability transition with a thought-provoking hypothetical construct, the cuvée organization. The aim of the paper is to introduce and conceptualize this normative concept on what sustainable and responsible business would look [...] Read more.
This paper discusses the role and responsibility of business organizations in a sustainability transition with a thought-provoking hypothetical construct, the cuvée organization. The aim of the paper is to introduce and conceptualize this normative concept on what sustainable and responsible business would look like in an ideal world—more specifically, which meta features should characterize a business organization that is designed for sustainability? It also tests the concept’s applicability to a micro-process, an everyday challenge any organization aiming for sustainability would face, namely discounting. The concept of the cuvée organization emerged from participatory backcasting, a normative scenario-building exercise conducted with a sustainability expert panel. In this co-creative process, the panel capitalized on the metaphor of cuvée wine and winemaking, which provided the cognitive means to chart the unknown. The emerged concept of the cuvée organization stands for a business archetype which is designed to serve a prosocial cause, subordinating activities and structural features accordingly. When applying this construct to discounting, our approach lies with ecological rationality in behavioral decision making as well as the practice-based approach of corporate strategy research. In this theoretically rigorous effort, we aim to show which meta-characteristics could support an organizational structure leading to better decision making, aiming to avoid various forms of temporal and spatial discounting. The originality of the research is filling the normative vision with details through the conceptualization of the cuvée organization. On the level of methodologies, our research contributes to understanding the novelty and applicability of backcasting processes and provides an astounding example for the use of metaphors in future studies. Full article
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Model of Socially Responsible Transfer of Parent Organization Culture to the Subsidiary Organization in a Foreign Cultural Environment Concerning Internal Communication, Stress, and Work Satisfaction
by Darja Kukovec, Borut Milfelner, Matjaž Mulej and Simona Šarotar-Žižek
Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 7927; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147927 - 15 Jul 2021
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The organizational culture is a significant construct in a time of change during the organizational transition, and it plays an important role in achieving goals of social responsibilities, which is an important part of sustainability. The literature shows the gap of socially responsible [...] Read more.
The organizational culture is a significant construct in a time of change during the organizational transition, and it plays an important role in achieving goals of social responsibilities, which is an important part of sustainability. The literature shows the gap of socially responsible transfer of organizational culture with the impact on employee’s well-being. The cultural changes of the organization during the transition are particularly in connection with the impact on internal communication where organizational culture presents a part of values, norms, and ethics, which influences successfully implemented changes and in such a way has an influence on the stress and work satisfaction. The main purpose of the presented study is the development of the model of socially responsible transfer of organizational culture to the foreign subsidiaries on a basis of adjusted internal communication, which reduces stress and increases work satisfaction. Impacts of organizational culture on internal communication, stress, and work satisfaction are clearly presented, as well as inter-related impacts of the constructs concerning national culture, leadership, and organizational knowledge. Thus, the new holistic model of socially responsible transfer of the parent organization culture to foreign subsidiaries clearly defines steps of organizational culture, internal communication, stress management, and work satisfaction. Managerial implications are discussed. Full article
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