Developing Your 鈥楴orth Star鈥 to Clarify Purpose
Presentation / Conference
Weaver, M., Crossan, K., & Tan, H. (2018, September)
Developing Your 鈥楴orth Star鈥 to Clarify Purpose. Presented at OR60: Annual Conference of the Operational Research 麻豆社区
There is widespread acceptance that business 鈥渃an do well, by doing good鈥 leading to the rise in organisations defining themselves as 鈥榩urpose-driven鈥. In the context of Scotl...
A systems approach to understanding the perspectives in the changing landscape of responsible business in Scotland
Journal Article
Weaver, M. W., Crossan, K., Tan, H., & Paxton, S. (2018)
A systems approach to understanding the perspectives in the changing landscape of responsible business in Scotland. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 1149-1167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.11.050
The purpose of this paper is to present an application of community O.R. (COR), using soft system methodology (SSM) to help a grant-maker to understand how to unlock and relea...
Community OR: Creating a 鈥楽hared Space鈥 to build value between business and communities
Presentation / Conference
Weaver, M., Crossan, K., Tan, H., Paxton, S. & McCallum, L. (2017, September)
Community OR: Creating a 鈥楽hared Space鈥 to build value between business and communities. Paper presented at OR59 - The Annual Operational Research 麻豆社区 Conference, Loughborough University, UK
The presentation provides examples on how systems approaches have helped identify better ways for communities and socially responsible businesses to build value. The examples ...
Taking Action to Unlock Business Resources Into Communities using SSM
Conference Proceeding
Weaver, M., Tan, H., Crossan, K., & Paxton, S. (2016)
Taking Action to Unlock Business Resources Into Communities using SSM. In Proceedings of OR58, Annual Operations Research Conference
This session presents three system conceptual models that have been brought to action as a result of an SSM study with the Voluntary Action Fund (a Scottish grant-maker). VAF ...
Cultivating Responsible Business in Scotland through the lens of the Scottish Business Pledge
Report
Weaver, M., Tan, H., Crossan, K. & Paxton, S. (2016)
Cultivating Responsible Business in Scotland through the lens of the Scottish Business Pledge. Edinburgh: Voluntary Action Fund as part of the Responsible Business Forum
A Systems Thinking Approach to Connecting and Aligning CSR Responses to Social Need in Scotland
Conference Proceeding
Crossan, K., Tan, H., Paxton, S. & Weaver, M. (2015)
A Systems Thinking Approach to Connecting and Aligning CSR Responses to Social Need in Scotland. In 27th European Conference on Operational Research - Programme HandbookISBN tbc
The session aims to present a conceptual model of the governance issues in connecting and aligning the CSR activities of Scottish Businesses and the real and emerging needs in...