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Author Jebseng, Simon

Title Social Sustainability and Good Work in Organizations
Published Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (229 p.)
Series Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations Series
Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations Series
Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Social sustainability and good work in organisations: Exploring how and why a recent phenomenon is being enacted -- On social sustainability and good work in organisations: What it means -- How social sustainability and good work are enacted in organisations -- On social sustainability and organisational change: Why the trend persists -- Contributions in this book: Thematic foci and conceptual choices -- References
1. Exploring the relationship between sustainable knowledge, entrepreneurial skills, and sustainable entrepreneurial intention among first-year business students -- Introduction -- Theoretical background -- Methods -- Sample and multiple imputation -- Measures -- Results -- Confirmatory factor analysis -- Latent profile analysis -- Discussion -- Disclaimer -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 2. Enlisting employees in social sustainability activities: How organisations discursively position employees as volunteers in their communication -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework
Employee volunteering -- Employee identity and identification -- Employee identity and identification in the context of volunteerism -- The study and its methodology -- The empirical material: Websites and online reports -- Analysing the empirical material -- Analytic outcomes and discussion of findings -- The externalised employee volunteer -- The economic employee volunteer -- The empowered employee volunteer -- The absent employee volunteer -- Concluding reflections on the analysis -- Implications and future research -- Implications for research and practice
Limitations and potentials for further research -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. Corporate heritage and social sustainability: The role businesses can (and should) play in maintaining heritage and culture -- Intro: Making the case for corporate heritage communication -- What is CHC? Definition, state of the art, and differentiation from other concepts -- Identity, collective memory, and heritage -- Scholarly attention to corporate heritage and how ""doing CHC"" is different
A stakeholder- and citizen-centred concept: How stakeholder theory, social sustainability, and corporate heritage interrelate -- Historywashing as yet another ""new spirit of capitalism""? Dangers and dark sides of CHC -- The micro-museum as a sustainable variant of CHC -- Summing up: What CHC can and cannot do -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 4. The role of bystandership for socially sustainable and inclusive police organisations -- Introduction -- Bystander roles and organisational engagement -- Police culture and bystander engagement -- A note on method -- Four stories of bystandership
Summary This edited research monograph collects nine unique research contributions on the concept of social sustainability and its connection to possibilities and hindrances for good work in organisations
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Story 1: Silent bystandership
Subject Social responsibility of business.
Sustainable development -- Social aspects
Social entrepreneurship.
Form Electronic book
Author Lueg, Klarissa
ISBN 9781003856214
1003856217