Special Issue "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: 31 October 2021.

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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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
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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