Vallaeys (2013, p. 1) has indicated the importance of SR and has identified the key features of SR that a university should be aware, as follows:
1. Social responsibility is a responsibility of institutions’ action and behavior for the impact they have influenced and caused to society.
2. Social responsibility requires a management practice that seeks to make society sustainable by eliminating unsustainable negative impacts and promoting sustainable forms of development.
3. Social responsibility is not beyond or outside the law; it works in coordination with legal obligations.
4. Social responsibility requires coordination between the stakeholders who are about to act on the
negative impacts diagnosed.