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Today, the role of universities in the education of future managers who promote the principles of social responsibility (SR) and CSR in business practice is pivotal. Properly educated management staff of organizations can disseminate knowledge on this subject and apply its principles in practice. The research scope of the paper is to identify the knowledge and perception of the University Social Responsibility Declaration (Polish national programme in this field, hereinafter called USRD) among the students of the University of Economics in Katowice. The research assumes that most of the students do not have any knowledge about such programs as the USRD, and that despite this, they see the need for implementation of the specific principles of the USRD into university’s activities. Significance of specific principles is associated with students’ sociodemographic and psychographic characteristics. The strongest relation between the perception of the importance of the objectives of USRD and students’ characteristics is observed in the declared extent to which respondents implement the principles of social responsibility in their everyday life, as well as in their age and year of study. The more the students use those principles, the higher they personally rate specific principles of the USRD.
Małgorzata Kieżel; Paweł Piotrowski; Joanna Wiechoczek. Perception of Social Responsibility Strategy in Higher Education: Empirical Study in Poland. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9417 .
AMA StyleMałgorzata Kieżel, Paweł Piotrowski, Joanna Wiechoczek. Perception of Social Responsibility Strategy in Higher Education: Empirical Study in Poland. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):9417.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMałgorzata Kieżel; Paweł Piotrowski; Joanna Wiechoczek. 2021. "Perception of Social Responsibility Strategy in Higher Education: Empirical Study in Poland." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 9417.
This study investigates the nature and specificity of the concept of sustainable tourism against the background of the paradigm of sustainable development (with regard to the conditions for the implementation of its practices in Polish conditions). The study assumes the hypothesis that researching sustainable tourism as a category within a new scientific concept—i.e., an emerging paradigm of sustainable development—requires the use of an appropriate scientific methodology. This study, in its essential part, has an overview and theoretical character. A critical analysis of the literature on the subject from books and journals, as well as Internet sources, is used in the study. Documentary and observation methods are applied, and the results of qualitative research based on case study research methodology are presented; thus, the empirical part of the paper has an exploratory nature. Research on sustainable tourism as a category within an emerging paradigm of sustainable development shows that researchers use an appropriate scientific methodology, which is compatible with the interpretive paradigm in the highest degree. In case studies, the research is often limited to the analysis of one example. Due to the prevalence of studies applying qualitative methods, an interpretivist approach is prevalent, while a functionalist approach, associated with quantitative research and model testing, is less frequent.
Małgorzata Kieżel; Paweł Piotrowski; Joanna Wiechoczek. The Research on Sustainable Tourism in the Light of Its Paradigms. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5821 .
AMA StyleMałgorzata Kieżel, Paweł Piotrowski, Joanna Wiechoczek. The Research on Sustainable Tourism in the Light of Its Paradigms. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (20):5821.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMałgorzata Kieżel; Paweł Piotrowski; Joanna Wiechoczek. 2019. "The Research on Sustainable Tourism in the Light of Its Paradigms." Sustainability 11, no. 20: 5821.