University value for sustainability: What do stakeholders perceive? An Italian case study

Titolo Rivista RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'
Autori/Curatori Maria Bonaventura Forleo, Nadia Palmieri
Anno di pubblicazione 2017 Fascicolo 2017/2
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 16 P. 103-118 Dimensione file 219 KB
DOI 10.3280/RISS2017-002008
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The study focuses on stakeholders’ perception about the university role in pro-moting a regional development along a sustainable path. The opinions of the University of Molise (IT) teaching staff together with external stakeholders were jointly investigated. Both believed that the University should strengthen its role, but their opinions differed about which activities should to be prioritised - education for external stakeholders, research for teachers -. The importance of the third mission did not emerge. The University role for enhancing the environmental dimension of sustainability was perceived better than that for the social dimension. The diverging views of stakeholders highlight the need for a more systematic and integrated involvement of all relevant actors before starting a formal process toward sustainability.

Il lavoro indaga la percezione del valore e del ruolo delle Università nella promozione di uno sviluppo regionale sostenibile, muovendo dal caso di studio dell’Università del Molise. Le opinioni del personale docente e degli stakeholder esterni sono congiuntamente rilevate. Entrambi i gruppi ritengono che l’Università potrebbe intensificare il suo ruolo, ma le opinioni differiscono circa le attività istituzionali prioritarie - la formazione per gli stakeholder esterni, la ricerca per il personale docente -. La percezione del ruolo dell’Università a sostegno della dimensione ambientale prevale su quella a favore della dimensione sociale della sosteni-bilità. Modesta è l’attenzione verso la terza missione. Le divergenti opinioni sotto-lineano la necessità di un coinvolgimento sistematico di tutti gli stakeholder rile-vanti prima di avviare processi formali di sostenibilità.

Keywords:Ruolo dell’Università, sviluppo sostenibile, opinioni degli stakeholder, personale docente, stakeholder esterni, caso di studio, Molise.

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Maria Bonaventura Forleo, Nadia Palmieri, University value for sustainability: What do stakeholders perceive? An Italian case study in "RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'" 2/2017, pp 103-118, DOI: 10.3280/RISS2017-002008