Miotto Giorgia, Blanco-González Alicia, Díez-Martín Francisco
Ramón Llull University, Blanquerna - Communication and International Relations School, Plaça Joan Coromines, s/n, 08001, Barcelona, Spain.
Rey Juan Carlos University, Social Sciences and Law School, Paseo de los Artilleros s/n, 28032, Madrid, Spain.
Heliyon. 2020 Nov 4;6(11):e05395. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05395. eCollection 2020 Nov.
An organization acquires legitimacy when it operates in an appropriate and desirable manner, satisfying the stakeholders' needs and expectations. Stakeholders claim to business schools sustainable and responsible management, knowledge transfer and research. In the last years, business schools adopted Corporate Social Responsibility as guideline of an integrated and holistic approach for their legitimation process. The aim of this research is to understand how business schools are reacting to the criticism that affects them and how they are reshaping their strategies in order to fulfill stakeholders' expectations, and to confirm which UN Sustainable Development Goals are the most cited in the sustainability reports of the best business schools in the world. We perform a content analysis of the latest sustainability reports published by the top 50 business schools, analyzing the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. We highlight that business schools focus social responsibility strategies mainly to define the professional standards to train future leaders qualified to manage organizations with a social, economic and environmental positive impact for all the stakeholders and capable to shape a better world.
当一个组织以适当且理想的方式运作，满足利益相关者的需求和期望时，它就获得了合法性。利益相关者要求商学院进行可持续和负责任的管理、知识转移与研究。在过去几年中，商学院采用企业社会责任作为其合法化过程的综合和整体方法的指导方针。本研究的目的是了解商学院如何应对影响它们的批评，以及它们如何重塑战略以满足利益相关者的期望，并确定在世界顶尖商学院的可持续发展报告中最常被引用的联合国可持续发展目标。我们对排名前50的商学院发布的最新可持续发展报告进行了内容分析，分析了17个联合国可持续发展目标。我们强调，商学院将社会责任战略主要集中在定义专业标准上，以培养有资格管理对所有利益相关者具有社会、经济和环境积极影响并能够塑造更美好世界的组织的未来领导者。
