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• The Rethinking the public in Higher Education: Communitarian Engagement vs. Service-Based dependency

  79-108

  Gyöngyvér Pataki

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  74

  There has been structural change in higher education due to the impact of institutions built or maintained in private public partnership. The aim of the paper is to give a deep insight into how these institutions could accomodate or shape the public higher education sector’s discouses, spaces, procedures. The research used mixed method to approach this complex question from a multidisciplinary perspective (sociology, education). Within this framework two residential halls were chosen and 17 interviews were carreid out with all relevant figure of the management. Due to the analytical tools of Maxqda 12 the qualitative results will be presented giving an insight into the differing discourses and practices of the public vs. private-public management. Based on the analysis of the managerial interviews it is safe to state that the public management struggles to balance a communitarian, democratic discourse and objectives with the requirements of efficiency and accountability. The presence of private-public management unintendedly shapes its public counterpart. The institutional analysis revealed that due to the swiftly changing institutional and policy environment residential halls are forced to be efficient leading to difficulties in managerial legitimacy and questions concepts such as community, conformity, commitment and action. Under the circumstances of increasingly growing institutional service-based dependency and control, academic consumers, institutions and students alike, paradoxically avoid integrating into macro groups. As a consequence, the institution encourage and educate student into a particular type of citizenship based on communication and consumerism rather than consensus.

• Beyond „Green finance” – Sustainability aspects of capital markets

  123-137

  Mihály Dombi

  Andrea Karcagi-Kováts

  Piroska Harazin

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  58

  
  The accumulation of capital constitutes an enormous obstacle to the sustainability transition.
  The role of the capital throughout the whole evolutionary process of civilization is undoubtedly impressive, as it has continuously delivered innovations in our everyday lives. Nevertheless, as
  we argue in our study, a dominant part of capital accumulation has not fulfilled this function
  in monetary and material terms as well recently; or performs at a low efficiency concerning the
  ecological damage generated. Sustainability calls thus for an investment environment in the
  near future that allows for the social benefits of capital accumulation through the expansion
  of the material services delivered, limiting the accumulation of material stocks, resulting in
  significant adverse environmental impacts remarkably in the same time. We will introduce
  and compare the gains of savings and capital accumulation considering the monetary and the
  material dimensions of our socio-economic system, unveiling the relevance of the capital market
  in sustainability transition in this way, beyond green finance.