Mission in Higher Education in Slovenia: Sustainability in Engineering versus Others Sector

Kristijan Breznik, Kris M. Y. Law and Jasmina Zeme
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Kristijan Breznik: International School for Social and Business Studies, 3000 Celje, Slovenia
Kris M. Y. Law: School of Engineering, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia
Jasmina Zeme: International School for Social and Business Studies, 3000 Celje, Slovenia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 14, 1-12

Abstract: With the proper mission, higher educational institutions can search for their opportunities and eliminate their weaknesses in the market. In the paper, mission statements from engineering institutions are compared with other higher educational institutions in Slovenia. Results of the content analysis reveal that “development”, “education”, “research” and “knowledge” are words with the highest frequency, confirming similar studies in the past. Dimensions of sustainability are not equally distributed in mission statements of engineering and other institutions. The dimension of environmental sustainability is more exposed in engineering higher education institutions. On the other hand, the dimension of social sustainability is more exposed in non-engineering (others) higher education institutions.

Keywords: mission statements; sustainability; content analysis; network analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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