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Sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility Management and Innovation

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 16214

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Elisa Baraibar-Diez

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Department of Business Administration, University of Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain
Interests: sustainability; corporate social responsibility; social impact; social entrepreneurship
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Prof. Dr. María D. Odriozola

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Department of Business Administration, University of Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain
Interests: labor social responsibility; sustainability; human resources; human resources management; corporate reputation
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Organizations have to respond to events, some more unexpected than others, to survive. There has never been better proof of this than the pandemic that we are currently experiencing in the first quarter of 2020. This situation has put to the test not only organizations, but also citizens and society as a whole, since everything we previously knew has now changed. If we focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR), several questions arise. For example, what issues will we need to pay attention to from now on? Are they the same subjects that interested organizations before, or has the perspective changed?

The objective of this Special Issue is to answer these questions by helping to promote a sustainable CSR with a focus on innovation in environments of great uncertainty, when intangible assets such as reputation or trust become more relevant. Could investment in sustainable CSR be the answer to organizations’ concern about those new problems in society? We aim to explore the application of better solutions so that organizations are able to efficiently and effectively address what is truly essential in relation to their mission and their purpose, their business models, the social impact they have, the work environment, and the importance of having a responsible and reliable supply chain.  

Thus, some topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Sustainable and innovative CSR practices and management;
  • New concerns of stakeholders;
  • Innovative business models: new era and approach for the social economy (WISEs, hybrid organizations);
  • HRM in time of crisis;
  • Leadership in hard times;
  • Social impact of organizations;
  • Responsible supply chain management;
  • Organizational behavior.

Dr. Elisa Baraibar Diez
Dr. María D. Odriozola
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable CSR
  • innovative CSR
  • reputation
  • business models
  • work environment

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CSR and Workplace Autonomy as Enablers of Workplace Innovation in SMEs through Employees: Extending the Boundary Conditions of Self-Determination Theory
by Beili Li, Xu Fan, Susana Álvarez-Otero, Muhammad Safdar Sial, Ubaldo Comite, Jacob Cherian and László Vasa
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6104; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116104 - 28 May 2021
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The current business environment characterized by high uncertainty, volatility, and stiff situation of competitiveness that is evident in almost every sector has increased the importance of workplace innovation for contemporary businesses. In this regard, a considerable attention in realizing employees of an organization [...] Read more.
The current business environment characterized by high uncertainty, volatility, and stiff situation of competitiveness that is evident in almost every sector has increased the importance of workplace innovation for contemporary businesses. In this regard, a considerable attention in realizing employees of an organization as a source of innovation is not evident from the existing literature. In this aspect, the current study is an attempt to foster workplace innovation through employees in the SME sector of an emerging economy. In doing so, the authors propose that corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of an SME, along with workplace autonomy, are helpful in creating an environment at the workplace that fosters innovative employee behavior (IEB). Furthermore, the current study also extends the boundary condition of the theory of self-determination by arguing that this theory provides a comprehensive framework to explain employees’ motivation for workplace innovation. The data of the current survey was obtained from the SME sector situated in two large cities of a developing country through a self-administered questionnaire which was then analyzed through structural-equation-modeling (SEM) using the AMOS software. The results confirmed that CSR directly relates to IEB and workplace autonomy mediates this relationship. The study also discusses the implications of this survey for theory and practice. Full article
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Fostering Workplace Innovation through CSR and Authentic Leadership: Evidence from SME Sector
by Wei Gao, Lin Wang, Jingdong Yan, Yanxiong Wu and Sadik Yusuf Musse
Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5388; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105388 - 12 May 2021
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The cut-throat situation of competitiveness in almost every business sector, followed by globalization, shortened product life cycles, and rapid technological changes have raised the importance of innovation to overrun the rivals. Scholars have established that appropriate leadership style is a key enabler for [...] Read more.
The cut-throat situation of competitiveness in almost every business sector, followed by globalization, shortened product life cycles, and rapid technological changes have raised the importance of innovation to overrun the rivals. Scholars have established that appropriate leadership style is a key enabler for organizational success. However, it is not clear in existing literature how the concept of authentic leadership is related to innovative work behavior (IWB). Likewise, the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to induce IWB is also vague in current literature. Thus, the basic purpose of the current study was to test the relationship of CSR and IWB with the mediating effect of authentic leadership. The proposed model was tested in the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) sector of China. The data were collected through a questionnaire that was distributed among different respondents of the current survey. The data were obtained from a dyad of supervisor and subordinate serving in different SMEs in Wuhan city of China. The study used the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique to validate different hypotheses. The empirical results confirm that CSR positively relates to IWB while authentic leadership partially mediates this relationship. The findings of the current survey will be helpful for policymakers to recognize employees as a source of innovation through CSR and authentic leadership. Full article
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Mind the Gap: Management System Standards Addressing the Gap for Ontario’s Municipal Drinking Water, Wastewater and Stormwater Ecosystem of Regulations
by Edgar Tovilla
Sustainability 2020, 12(17), 7099; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12177099 - 31 Aug 2020
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The research finds evidence in support of and wide recognition of the practical value of management system standards (MSS) by assisting municipalities in meeting their human health protection, environmental objectives, addressing environmental and property damage risks, and providing an additional mechanism of public [...] Read more.
The research finds evidence in support of and wide recognition of the practical value of management system standards (MSS) by assisting municipalities in meeting their human health protection, environmental objectives, addressing environmental and property damage risks, and providing an additional mechanism of public accountability and transparency. Semi-structured interviews were applied to assess perceptions with practitioners and environmental non-governmental organizations on whether a similar approach to the legally required drinking water quality management standard (DWQMS) could be applied for the municipal wastewater and stormwater sectors. Twelve Ontario municipalities have adopted or are in the process of adopting an ISO 14001 environmental management system (EMS) standard for their wastewater and/or stormwater systems, which represents 66% of Ontario’s population. With the large urban centres (e.g., Toronto, York Region, Durham Region, Halton Region and Peel Region) adopting the standard, this is likely to influence small to medium-sized cities to follow a similar approach. Although, resources might be a factor preventing the cohort of smaller utilities voluntarily taking this path. Regulations governing Ontario’s municipal drinking water, wastewater and stormwater utilities were compared via gap analysis. Gaps on management of the system, performance monitoring, auditing and having minimum design criteria left the municipal wastewater and stormwater sectors behind in comparison with recently updated (2004–2008) regulatory framework for the drinking water sector. Based on the identification and review of significant gaps in wastewater and stormwater regulation (compared with the drinking water sector), environmental MSS should be incorporated to strengthen the regulatory framework of these sectors. These phenomena also depict a form of sustainable governance with the use of MSS, which are initiated, developed and regulated by non-state actors, recognizing the value of non-state rule instruments in the water, wastewater and stormwater sectors. Full article
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Mapping Social Impact: A Bibliometric Analysis
by Elisa Baraibar-Diez, Manuel Luna, María D. Odriozola and Ignacio Llorente
Sustainability 2020, 12(22), 9389; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12229389 - 11 Nov 2020
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Social dimension is a fundamental element in the evaluation of initiatives and policies that are demanded and promoted by public and private organizations as well as society as a whole. Thus, there is a thriving interest in social impact research, especially from the [...] Read more.
Social dimension is a fundamental element in the evaluation of initiatives and policies that are demanded and promoted by public and private organizations as well as society as a whole. Thus, there is a thriving interest in social impact research, especially from the point of view of its measurement and valuation. In this work, we explored the rising attention on the concept of social impact to identify salient agents in the field and categorize the conceptual structure of research. To achieve this, we used evaluative and relational techniques combining traditional bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer and a text mining analysis based on natural processing language (NLP) to search for documents with the term “social impact” in the title. The documents were extracted from the database Web of Science (WoS) for the period of 1938–2020. As a result, we mapped the concept of social impact from up to 1677 documents, providing an overview of the topics in which the concept was used (e.g., health, finance, environment and development, etc.) and the trends of research. This work seeks to serve as a roadmap that reflects not only the evolution of social impact but also future lines of research that require attention. Full article
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