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Abstract
Over the past two decades, social responsibility (SR) has become a key principle of many private sector entities that aim for business excellence. Similarly, in the public sector, the latest public governance models (PGMs) are based on the selected public governance principles (e.g. consensus orientation, participation, equity and inclusiveness) directed at connecting and including all types of stakeholders in decision-making and carrying out the activities of public sector organisations. Yet, there is insufficient reliable empirical evidence with respect to the relationship between social responsibility and the underlying principles of PGMs. The principal goal of the article is thus to identify the relationship between the concept of social responsibility and consensus orientation, which is one of the main theoretically and practically grounded principles of PGMs. This goal is addressed by applying the QDA Miner software package and analysing the contents of the 100 most relevant scientific papers from the Web of Science database. Specifically, the relationship between occurrence of the ‘consensus orientation’ principle and SR is identified and quantified, revealing the importance of the latter. Moreover, different PGMs are analysed in terms of consensus orientation and SR enforcement, providing tangible guidelines to help advance theory and practice in the domain of public governance.
在过去的二十年里,社会责任(SR)已经成为许多私营企业追求卓越经营的关键原则。同样,在公共部门,最新的公共治理模式(PGMs)基于选定的公共治理原则(如共识导向、参与、公平和包容),旨在将公共部门组织的决策和开展活动的所有类型的利益相关者联系起来并包括在内。然而,关于社会责任与政府间管理的基本原则之间的关系,缺乏可靠的经验证据。因此,本文的主要目的是确定社会责任概念与共识导向之间的关系,共识导向是PGMs的主要理论和实践基础原则之一。这一目标是通过应用QDA Miner软件包和分析Web of Science数据库中100篇最相关的科学论文的内容来实现的。具体而言,“共识导向”原则的发生与社会责任之间的关系被识别和量化,揭示了后者的重要性。此外,本文还从共识导向和社会责任执行的角度分析了不同的公共治理机制,为公共治理领域的理论和实践提供了切实的指导。