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Sustainability Transformation of Higher Education Institutions - Guido Grunwald, Ali Kara, Paul Shrivastava

Sustainability Transformation of Higher Education Institutions

A Relationship Quality Management Perspective
Buch | Hardcover
XXXV, 328 Seiten
2026
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-032-11587-4 (ISBN)
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Because of their fundamental mission, generating knowledge through research and disseminating it via teaching and publications, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) can serve as a vehicle for enacting new worldviews and approaches for sustainability transformation. This book explores the realised and unrealised potential of HEIs to achieve this, adopting a relationship quality management framework. This involves understanding the sustainability needs, preferences, and behaviours of both internal and external stakeholders to deliver satisfying stakeholder experiences, co-creating and communicating sustainable value, thereby fostering stakeholder trust and long-term commitment.

This book presents relationship quality management concepts and tools for identifying and transforming stakeholder sustainability needs into action for the benefit of HEI s sustainability transformation. It includes practical insights into the application of relationship quality management tools such as Kano-analysis, the measurement of perceived service quality in higher education (HEdPERF), stakeholder and materiality matrix, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), or the Net Promoter Score (NPS) for assessing HEI customer satisfaction and referral behaviour. It will be of great interest to scholars and students, as well as HEI employees working on sustainability strategy and stakeholder engagement.

Guido Grunwald is Full Professor of Business Administration in the Faculty of Management, Culture, and Technology at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Germany. His research interests include customer behaviour, sustainability and relationship marketing, and, more specifically, stakeholders' reactions to CSR communication and crises.

Ali Kara is a Professor of Marketing at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, where he currently serves as the Discipline Coordinator of the Business and Economics Division. He was the recipient of the 2019 Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching and received the York Campus James H. Burness Award for Excellence in Teaching (2016) and Academic Advising Award (2010).

Paul Shrivastava is Professor of Management & Organizations at Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University, USA. He has previously served as Penn State's Chief Sustainability Officer, Director of its Sustainability Institute and Executive Director of Future Earth. He is the Co-President of The Club of Rome, a global sustainability think-and-act tank.

Chapter 1: The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Promoting Sustainability in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 2: Fundamentals and Principles of Relationship Quality Management in the Sustainability Transformation of Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 3: Stakeholder Analysis in the Sustainability Transformation of Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 4: Segmenting Stakeholders for Higher Education Institutions Sustainability Transformations.- Chapter 5: CoCreating Sustainable Value through Stakeholder Partnership in Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 6: Transforming Stakeholder Needs and Innovative Ideas into Sustainable Actions in Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 7: Authentically Communicating Sustainability Engagements of Higher Education Institutions to Reduce Tensions.- Chapter 8: Measuring Success of Sustainability Transformations in Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 9: Challenges Opportunities and Emerging Trends in Integrating Relationship Quality Management into the Sustainability Transformation of Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 10: Plan of Action for Relationship Quality Management based Sustainability Transformation at Higher Education Institutions.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business In Association with Future Earth
Zusatzinfo XXXV, 328 p. 34 illus., 16 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
Schlagworte CSR-related tensions • Customer Relationship Management • expectations management • Greenwashing • Heis • impact assessment • Kano Model • Net Promoter Score • organizational hypocrisy • Quality function deployment • Quality management • relationship quality management • RQM • Stakeholder Management • Sustainability Assessment • sustainability co-creation • Sustainability communication • Sustainability Transformation • Sustainable value creation • Value-Action Gap
ISBN-10 3-032-11587-6 / 3032115876
ISBN-13 978-3-032-11587-4 / 9783032115874
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