A tool to measure organizational sustainability strength

Last year`s developments in the economies of Europe, US and other countries have awakened us for the challenges of sustainability of the economies, countries and economic organizations as well. In this context, many companies all over the world revealed disability to deal with this present environment by failing to disclose proper strategic decisions in a significant number of cases, unbalanced management practices and the general failure to make a good use of their resources efficiently and effectively in the situation of volatile markets, in order to guarantee its consolidation and stable functioning of businesses and society. These facts had also revealed that financial and economic attitude implemented by some companies, which are focused on short-term earnings, was surpassing a humanist and social vision of businesses and society and revealing a lack of ethic and corporate responsibility in transactions development and in the relations with stakeholders, incompliance with legal obligations, sometimes the manipulation of financial and other corporate data in order to boost a company`s valuation. Beyond several factors that could be considered relevant in the framework of sustainability and according to the “DPODE Model for Organizational Sustainability” (2010), there are some pillars (dimensions) that seem to be of major importance and under which businesses management needs to develop abilities to ensure the sustainability of their organizations. After a primary application of the model to two major Portuguese organizations to test it, the authors are trying to improve it by disclosing a set of organizational competences and dimensions to be analyzed at different levels of organizations in terms of their objectivity and scope of information, regarding each one of the five pillars of the model (Direction, Posture, Organization, Behavior and Evaluation). In this sense, with the adoption of focus group research technic the authors united some academic researchers and managers to analyze and develop each pillar of the proposed model. The authors are developing a study with the support of the Portuguese Construction Technological Platform regarding the main contractors of the sector in Portugal, aiming to reveal the sustainable strength indexes of each one and to disclose the pattern of sustainability robustness of this group of companies. This paper includes a literature review on several aspects of the organizational sustainability and a review about the model, coupled with the proposal of a mathematical application in order to measure an organization`s sustainability strength

Social Protests in 2011: International Perspective and Information Access

The paper analyzes the interrelation of social protesting and informal economy, core values of protesting class and the level of information accessibility for the ones involved in social unease. To perform this analysis we have used both quantitative and qualitative data: qualitative data was related to the core values of protestants and was collected via semantic analysis of their social media posts. To perform quantitative evaluation, we have used the rankings on Internet freedom and mass media transparency; yet as the main analytical tool was semantic, the conclusion on how core values influence person’s desire to be involved in social protests was made on the basis of qualitative analysis. The research had confirmed that growth rate of informal economy is a good predictor of possible unease based on dignity-based values

A tool to measure organisational sustainability strength

Last year’s developments in the economies of Europe, US and other countries have awakened us for the challenges of sustainability of the economies, countries and economic organizations as well. In this context, many companies all over the world revealed disability to deal with this present environment by failing to disclose proper strategic decisions in a significant number of cases, unbalanced management practices and the general failure to make a good use of their resources efficiently and effectively in the situation of volatile markets, in order to guarantee its consolidation and stable functioning of businesses and society. These facts had also revealed that financial and economic attitude implemented by some companies, which are focused on short-term earnings, was surpassing a humanist and social vision of businesses and society and revealing a lack of ethic and corporate responsibility in transactions development and in the relations with stakeholders, incompliance with legal obligations, sometimes the manipulation of financial and other corporate data in order to boost a company’s valuation. Beyond several factors that could be considered relevant in the framework of sustainability and according to the “DPODE Model for Organizational Sustainability” (2010), there are some pillars (dimensions) that seem to be of major importance and under which businesses management needs to develop abilities to ensure the sustainability of their organizations. After a primary application of the model to two major Portuguese organizations to test it, the authors are trying to improve it by disclosing a set of organizational competences and dimensions to be analyzed at different levels of organizations in terms of their objectivity and scope of information, regarding each one of the five pillars of the model (Direction, Posture, Organization, Behavior and Evaluation). In this sense, with the adoption of focus group research technic the authors united some academic researchers and managers to analyze and develop each pillar of the proposed model. The authors are developing a study with the support of the Portuguese Construction Technological Platform regarding the main contractors of the sector in Portugal, aiming to reveal the sustainable strength indexes of each one and to disclose the pattern of sustainability robustness of this group of companies. This paper includes a literature review on several aspects of the organizational sustainability and a review about the model, coupled with the proposal of a mathematical application in order to measure an organization’s sustainability strength

Financial, organisational and informative involvement of the society in social innovation processes in Latvia

International audienceSocial innovation brings to inclusion and wellbeing, improving the quality of life and socioeconomic performance and enhancing the society's collective power and resources. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to promote social innovation processes in any society, providing research for getting the understanding of different aspects of it, including the main actors and the extent to which they are involved in social innovation. The research presented in this paper reveals the main stakeholders of social innovation and analyses the methodology elaborated by the authors for determining the involvement of the society in social innovation processes at financial, organisational and informative levels. Corresponding indices defined and determined for the case of Latvia reveal that the level of overall involvement of the society in social innovation processes here is lower than average

Organizational Aspects of the Erasmus+ Mobility: The Case of a Successful Bulgarian-Russian Partnership

The purpose of this paper is to broaden the understanding of the Erasmus+ Program mobility impact on the business and management education in Bulgarian and Russian universities. In particular, it offers an extension of its scope formed on the example of the Erasmus+ cooperation between the University of Ruse (Bulgaria) and Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev (Russia) in the business and management study fields. This case study report highlights some important organizational aspects of the business and management Erasmus+ education in Bulgaria and Russia. It presents also some practical aspects and is based on the Erasmus cooperation between the two mentioned universities. The findings from the case study appear to be in line with existing literature; for instance, it confirmed that academic mobility is shaping the curricula in the universities involved

Attitudes Towards Sustainable Entrepreneurship among Students : A Pilot Study in Latvia and Lithuania

Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Jelena Titko et al.Sustainable economic development is driven by sustainable entrepreneurial activities, generated by the personal attitudes of entrepreneurs. The present and future of sustainable entrepreneurship are shaped by the youth, including students, which is why it is important to understand their attitudes towards this type of entrepreneurship. Therefore, the key goal of the research is to evaluate the attitudes and behaviours of the youth towards sustainability issues and sustainable entrepreneurship. The current article reflects the results of the second research stage and aims at evaluating attitudes towards sustainable entrepreneurship among Latvian and Lithuanian students. The results reveal that gender/age affect personal environmental attitudes, however gender/age has no effect on personal willingness to start a sustainable business. The analysis results of the personal attitudes to sustainable entrepreneurship differ by age and gender. Gender has no effect and age strongly affects personal attitudes to sustainable development.Peer reviewe