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Current and future economic leaders are among the most critical actors in launching and guiding the transition towards a sustainable economy and society; preparing them for this responsibility falls to higher education institutions, especially business schools. In this paper, the authors analyse the external communication of 100 highly ranked business schools to understand how they incorporate the issue of sustainability. Moreover, they also aim to delineate the relationship between their understanding of sustainability and the futures they present. The findings show that in education-related texts, almost half of institutions fail to touch on the issue of sustainability at all, while the other half narrow down the concept to its economic aspects. They also show that a neoliberal worldview is more dominant in the corpus, and that the only aspects of sustainability emphasised by business schools are those which are compatible with this perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digitalization is essential for companies looking to stay afloat in a changing business environment. However, lots of enterprises still do not take advantage of this opportunity, which may be due to several factors, such as lack of knowledge, leadership style, high costs or sustainability. Focusing on the controversial link between digitalization and sustainability, this paper seeks to explore the potential of digitalization for enterprises and to propose new development strategies. The primary research was based on a quantitative questionnaire survey conducted among business managers and entrepreneurs in the V4 countries, in Bulgaria and Serbia, focusing on the impact of digitalization on sustainability. Based on the results, the businesses surveyed were divided into two groups: Concerned Committed and Indifferent Conservatives, whom with different preferences, have the potential to achieve a balanced state of ‘digital sustainability—sustainable digitalization’ (digitainability), enabling enterprises to deliver outstanding digitalization performance with a sustainable strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper seeks to answer the question which activities in the narrower areas of library work, such as acquisitions and cataloguing, can serve the goals of sustainability. Within the selected workflows, it illustrates possible implementation through examples taken from the practice of the ELTE University Library and Archives. The article is an extended, edited version of the presentation given at the Bibliographic Section of the Annual Conference of the Association of Hungarian Librarians held in Kaposvár in July 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An increasing emphasis is currently placed on the role of different industries in social and ecological transformations. In a 2018 participatory backcasting project, the largest Hungarian marketing communications agency envisioned the future of their industry. Backcasting is a scenario building framework that builds on a normative vision of the future. Without framing discourses, the focus on the role marketing can play in a sustainability transformation shifted. The project provides an example of providing adequate space for employees in “polluting” industries to channel their aspirations on positive social impact and manage tensions on potential negative impacts. They can thus contribute to sustainability transitions and, by reducing personal dissonance, the industry can prevent the loss of its socially responsible members. By sharing this project experience, the present paper contributes to the discourse on making business and social models more sustainable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current conceptualizations of mobility futures deal with autonomous mobility. When discussing the societal impacts, questions revolve around ethical issues, while sustainability considerations bring electromobility to the fore. This paper, however, focuses on the concept of 'automobility' and discusses how it is possible to step out of the boundaries presented by the imaginary of automobility. In order to do this, the paper (a) discusses the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries; (b) places this into the literature on 'automobility'; (c) shows the basics of a post-automobility imaginary; (d) and discusses the consequences thereof with regard to digital post-automobility and the emergence of a new mobility ecosystem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To address the challenges of sustainable living, there has been a growing role for communities that are organized on a practice basis. This paper examines the characteristics of the learning methods applied by communities of practice (CoPs) in Budapest to foster sustainable consumption and determine how these learning mechanisms support participants to develop a sustainable lifestyle. To answer the questions, an explorative research design based on qualitative methods was applied. The in‐depth interviews were conducted in two consecutive waves. In the first phase, expert interviews were conducted, followed by a second phase involving 20 additional interviews with members of active communities related to ecological and social sustainability. Based on the characteristics of knowledge sharing, there were equally identifiable types of cases in the examined communities, representing one-, two- and three-loop learning, and the learning takes place both on an individual and a collective level. By examining the direction and orientation of learning, it was also found that building and strengthening community consciousness and the existence of multi-loop learning mechanisms contribute to a convergent and constructive social learning outcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Libraries cannot confine their activities to merely preserving and providing documents; the wide range of their functions flexibly responds to the rapidly changing needs of society. Besides library services becoming more complex, over the past three decades, since the change of the political system, Hungarian libraries have also adapted to operating within a market economy framework. From public institutions operating under a lot of pressure among their competitors this requires a major shift in perspective, still ongoing today. To remain competitive, five criteria need to be met: (1) Leaders of libraries shall have adequate financial knowledge and management skills. (2) Libraries are required to continuously prove their social utility to their maintainers. (3) There is an increasing focus on effectiveness in the operation of libraries. (4) Embedded participation, in line with each library's type both in nature and intensity, is expected in (regional) economic development. (5) The boundary between traditional and atypical services of libraries is beginning to blur; educational and social engagement needs to be increased. This study examines, both from a theoretical and a practical perspective, the international library innovations connected to the development of (1) digital literacy, (2) financial literacy, and (3) business, integrated into the current global and local, mostly education-oriented set of instruments related to sustainability. The paper also addresses the connections between library financing and economic value creation, and the possible returns on tax money spent on the library system. The analysis is concluded by posing topical questions on cultural economics requiring further research, from the field of library and information science, raised by rapidly changing circumstances (e.g., Covid-19). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to examine the digitalization practices of logistics service providers from a sustainability point of view by qualitative methods. Four case studies are introduced in detail and the results suggest that digitalization projects have a rather positive effect in terms of economic sustainability. The environmental performance is not significantly changed, but the CO2 emissions can be reduced. Regarding social issues, digitalisation projects do not affect the number of employees, the projects introduced in the paper rather help companies deal with the current workload of employees and secure a more efficient and creative working environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainability has been receiving an ever increasing attention in recent years. Some authors even cite sustainability as the next megatrend after quality and IT revolutions (Lubin-Esty, 2010). This paper aims to examine to what extent this megatrend prevails in Hungary: do Hungarian companies treat environmental protection and sustainability as a strategic element of competitiveness? The paper studies the concept of corporate sustainability, then examines the presence of the three aspects of sustainability in the strategy and practice of Hungarian firms. The analysis is based on the results of a survey on competitiveness carried out by the Competitiveness Research Centre of Corvinus University of Budapest in 2009. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the successful implementation of the sustainability corporate strategies. First, it summarizes the new strategic challenges of the 21st Century. In the next step, it determines the objectives, rules of the sustainability strategic alternatives and the critical factors of the strategic choices. Then, it describes the consequences of the simplistic addition of the social and environmental perspectives to the conventional Balanced Scorecard (BSC). Based on this, it outlines the structure of the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) and the steps of its definition. Relating to this, it introduces the proposals for the elements of the SBSC for the different sustainability strategies. Finally, it demonstrates the phases of the formation, and introduction of the "Credible" strategy in a chemical industry case study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decade, a lot of publications came to light, dealing with the social and environmental responsibility of financial institutions. Banks are expected to improve their competitive advantage by demonstrating economic development, while promoting environment care and social responsibility. This sustainable finance means to manage environmental and social risks in corporate lending and project financing. Green financial institutions have developed a wide range of innovations that can support sustainable development. This article highlights a few external and internal factor that support this aim, and which are regulated by international principles. However the authors' survey shows that in the relevant literature there are a lot of ways to define sustainability and its achievement. They suggest that all of them can be interpreted associated with green banking operation. The goal of this paper is to identify the role of financial institutions in achieving sustainable development, and stress its strategic importance. The authors also attempt to show, why and how can this sector become the promoter of sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]