Approach to a Project Framework in the Environment of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Case Study of a Training Proposal to a Group of Students in a Higher Education Institution

Eduardo García Villena, Santos Gracia Villar, Luís A. Dzul López, Roberto Marcelo Álvarez, Irene Delgado Noya and Juan Luís Vidal Mazón
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Eduardo García Villena: Higher Polytechnic School/Industrial Organization Engineering, Universidad Europea del Atlántico (UNEATLANTICO), Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain
Santos Gracia Villar: Higher Polytechnic School/Industrial Organization Engineering, Universidad Europea del Atlántico (UNEATLANTICO), Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain
Luís A. Dzul López: Higher Polytechnic School/Industrial Organization Engineering, Universidad Europea del Atlántico (UNEATLANTICO), Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain
Roberto Marcelo Álvarez: Higher Polytechnic School/Industrial Organization Engineering, Universidad Europea del Atlántico (UNEATLANTICO), Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain
Irene Delgado Noya: Higher Polytechnic School/Industrial Organization Engineering, Universidad Europea del Atlántico (UNEATLANTICO), Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain
Juan Luís Vidal Mazón: Higher Polytechnic School/Industrial Organization Engineering, Universidad Europea del Atlántico (UNEATLANTICO), Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 19, 1-28

Abstract: The purpose of this research was to plan an approach to a project framework that integrated a model for sustainability and CSR, with the process groups of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK ® ) standard, in its application to the training of a group of students in Project Design, Management, and Evaluation. The integration was justified by the scarce explicit references to sustainability and CSR found in traditional project management guidelines, norms, and standards. The new framework was used to structure a Sustainability Management Plan, which made it possible to incorporate sustainability criteria throughout the life cycle of the training project. The training proposal in Project Design, Management, and Evaluation was chosen, among several alternatives, by a multi-criteria selection process (fuzzy AHP) in the context of project scope management. The results reveal a great heterogeneity among the models and the lack of a base of key indicators in sustainability and CSR measurement tools as well as of explicit references to sustainability in project management standards. It is therefore necessary to develop a Sustainability Management Plan that can be introduced in the Project Management Plan and thus influence the strategic and operational guidelines of the Institution.

Keywords: PMBOK ®; CSR; Project Management Plan; sustainability; Project Design; Management and Evaluation; fuzzy AHP (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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