IDENTYFIKACJA REZULTATÓW WDRAŻANIA ZRÓWNOWAŻONEGO ROZWOJU W UCZELNIACH
IDENTIFICATION OF THE RESULTS OF IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN UNIVERSITIES

Summary/Abstract: Member universities of the UN PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education)initiative are obliged to evaluate the results of their activities aimed at implementing the ideaof sustainable development, but to a lesser extent they focus on identifying cause and effectrelationships in achieved results. Such relationships can be explained by analysis consistentwith the context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) model.Therefore, the aim of the article is to identify the effects of implementing sustainabledevelopment in universities in terms of contexts and mechanisms. The research questionconcerned determining the connections between the identified outcomes and the conditionsand actions taken. In the research procedure, one of the seventeen reports of Polish universities, prepared aspart of the PRME initiative, was selected and subjected to thematic analysis.The results show that universities achieve results mainly related to education, involvementof the academic community and the development of competences related to sustainabledevelopment. The article proposes a new perspective on the sustainable development ofuniversities using the CMO model.

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