Sustainability modelling and reporting: From roadmap to implementation

Sustainable business management aspires towards balancing and integrating social, economic and environmental dimensions. Existing roadmaps, frameworks and systems do not comprehensively support sustainable business transformation nor do they allow decision makers to explore interrelationships and in...

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Published in:Decision Support Systems 2012-06, Vol.53 (3), p.611-624
Main Authors: Ahmed, M. Daud, Sundaram, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptive systems
Applied sciences
Business transformation roadmap
Computer architecture
Computer science
control theory
systems
Decision modelling
Decision support systems
Decision theory. Utility theory
DSS framework and architecture
Exact sciences and technology
Information systems. Data bases
Integration
Memory organisation. Data processing
Operational research and scientific management
Operational research. Management science
Software
Studies
Sustainability
Sustainability management
Sustainability modelling and reporting system
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Summary:Sustainable business management aspires towards balancing and integrating social, economic and environmental dimensions. Existing roadmaps, frameworks and systems do not comprehensively support sustainable business transformation nor do they allow decision makers to explore interrelationships and influences between the sustainability dimensions. This leads to silo-based decision making where vision and strategies are not mapped to execution, and sustainability modelling and reporting processes are uncoordinated. This research proposes and implements a generic sustainable business transformation roadmap, which is supported by a framework and architecture for integrated sustainability modelling and reporting. The implementation leverages system dynamics, workflow modelling and adaptable system concepts. ► Proposed and implemented a holistic response for sustainability in organisations. ► Proposed a sustainable business transformation roadmap. ► Designed a sustainability modelling and reporting framework and architecture. ► Implemented a generic and adaptable sustainability modelling and reporting system. ► Validated the above research artefacts through design science principles.
ISSN:0167-9236
1873-5797
DOI:10.1016/j.dss.2012.02.004