Sjors Witjes Sample Clauses

Sjors Witjes the SDGs require the continuous feedback between actors I see the dominant paradigm of growth as a rooted belief in the corporate world. With corporate growth mainly reflected by key performance indicators represent- ing quantifiable corporate processes impacting the SDGs, it distracts attention from qualitative social outcomes of informal processes, such as those represented by SDG 17. This relates to the tension of research ‘greenwashing’ based on quantifi- able results, without considering qualitative outcomes. To avoid the potential abuse of outcomes, the aim of my research is to accompany companies in reflecting on their past and current sustainability performance from a quantitative and qualitative perspective in order to establish a more realistic strategy for improved future per- formance. In this way, my TD research approach can also be seen as corporate sup- port, as the research outcomes can also be used to improve corporate performance and, therefore, to contribute to SDG 12 on sustainable consumption and production. From a TD ambition perspective (see Chapter 2), I work from a problem orientation through an inter-academic solution orientation towards enhanced fairness within a limited, organization-oriented scope. The contribution to knowledge creation in the integration of CS in organizational systems, as well as the organization of reflection between academic and non-academic actors on strategic decision-making processes for CS integration enables me to generalize outcomes and upscale my research scope from an organization focus. This is achieved via a sector or supply chain focus (see for example Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx, 2016), linked to a societal scope on the regional, national (see Sartori, Witjes, & Xxxxxx, 2017) or international level. To ensure legitimacy of my research within the academic world, the partic- ipatory action research method I apply includes continuous feedback between meaningful outcomes for practice, and knowledge created by a continuous col- laboration between academics and non-academics for a broader perspective such as for science. By providing tools for companies to reflect on their sustainability performance, my research aims at changing the dominant paradigm in organi- zations from corporate growth towards a new development paradigm prioritiz- ing the environment of which we all are part (Nobre et al., 2016). I also see an important role for academia to enhance critical reflections in collaboration with non-academics aim...