<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>Seele, Peter</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Sebastian, Knebel</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2020-10-05</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">Sustainability Indicators (SIs) are rising. They reach importance in all communications and decisions towards sustainability (Baue, 2019; Hák et al.,  2016; Lyytimäki, 2019; UN DESA, 2019; UNRISD, 2019), especially in corporate communications and corporate reporting (GRI, 2019; Knebel &amp; Seele,  2015). With the revised General Procurement Agreement (GPA) from the World Trade Organization (WTO) also Public Procurement starts to rely on SIs  in order to fulfill upcoming legal requirements (Arrowsmith &amp; Anderson, 2011b; European Union, 2014; WTO, 2015). The rise of SIs coincides with a  digital revolution (Greengard, 2015; Helbing, 2015b) potentially also revolutionizing SIs, in their consistence, the way they support decision making, as  well as their potential in measuring and communicating sustainability performance in corporate communications. The thesis follows two research  streams, whereby one stream delves into the realms of SIs and sustainable public procurement (SPP) and the other into the realms of SIs and  Digitalization. The first stream looks into possibilities to translate and operationalize SIs in SPP considering previously identified issues to implement  sustainability in public procurement. The second stream looks into SIs, their digitalization and its impact on corporate communications. The findings and  results encompass the development of a flexible and a framing approach for public procurements’ way towards sustainability. Thus, the findings include  an analysis of status quo in SPP and called for definitions for SPP’s common understanding. Hereby, the conceptualization and development of a “SIs  selector” based on a SIs typology allows professionals to select and construct SIs for each individual procured good and service. A framing approach  complements these results by providing a small SIs set tailored to SPP requirements which aims to reduce complexity to provide common ground in a  field that craves for harmony and a common understanding of SPP. Findings from the second stream encompass the conceptualization of a digital  corporate nervous net, which enables the further conceptualization of preporting. The conceptualization of a corporate nervous net reveals ways for  corporate communications to adopt to the digital revolution. Preporting builds on such a corporate nervous net and conceptualizes how digitalized and AI  augmented SIs complement existing reporting practices in corporate communications. While SIs rather represent constructive communication aiming to  order potential disorder by reducing complexities, the thesis introduces in the end destructive communication in form of cyberattacks as opposing force.  Interestingly, the findings reveal not only how SIs destruct organization if used unproperly or when they oversimplify, but also how destructive  communication constitutes organization in the sense of CCO without being contradictorily. Thus, the thesis outlines this duality of communication along  SIs and cyberattacks in its interplay and their switching roles between construction and destruction in changing organization. Hence, the thesis in its six  plus one chapters provides theoretical advancements and practical implications into the digitalization of corporate communications along SIs and  cyberattacks and the opportunities to overcome inertia in SPP implementation using SIs.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/319363</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1319363</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/documents/319363/files/2020COM004.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
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  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>License undefined</dc:rights>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">Corporate communications,</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Corporate reporting</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">Sustainability indicators (SIs)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">Sustainable public procurement (SPP)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">Corporate social responsibility (CSR)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">Communication constituting organization (CCO)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">Digitalization</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns8="xml" ns8:lang="en">Cyberattacks</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns9="xml" ns9:lang="en">Organizational communications</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns10="xml" ns10:lang="en">AI</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns11="xml" ns11:lang="en">Big data</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns12="xml" ns12:lang="en">Io</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns13="xml" ns13:lang="en">Digital immune system</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns14="xml" ns14:lang="en">Digital nervous net</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns15="xml" ns15:lang="en">Sustainability indicators of corporate communications : translated into public procurement and the implications of their digitalization</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06</dc:type>
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