The recent years has arisen a global discussion in relation with how to incorporate sustainability at a business level. Corporate sustainability is a multidimensional concept, is the translation of Sustainable Development concept at a business level. Sustainability in organizations must be managed and assessed by decision makers, for that reason a multi-criteria sustainability performance measurement is necessary. The aim of this paper is combine different important tools that helps to make operative corporate sustainability and sustainability performance measurement in Cuban organizations. The combination of Sustainability Balanced Scorecard, multi-criteria decisions models like: Analytic Network Process, and Matrix of Sustainable Strategic Alignment, can help managers in sustainability performance measurement and assessment. The result of this paper focus in a Corporate Sustainability Measurement Network design as a first approach for further sustainability performance measurement systems development emphasizing in multi-criteria analysis.
Abstract:The present article proposes a structured approach to assessing environmental performance through a procedure that establishes a course of action to complete the evaluation of corporate environmental performance, integrating environmental indicators that respond to major policies and strategies. The Resumen: El artículo propone un abordaje estructurado para evaluar el desempeño ambiental a través de un procedimiento que establece una línea de acción para realizar la evaluación del desempeño ambiental de empresas cubanas, integrando indicadores ambientales que responden a las principales políticas y estrategias. La propuesta tiene como objetivo presentar contribuciones teóricas para la evaluación del desempeño ambiental empresarial en el entorno de Cuba, para complementar la evaluación con medidas de resultados del desempeño ambiental y garantizar la eficacia de las políticas, estrategias y metas. La propuesta surge de la carencia de instrumentos metodológicos que permitan la selección, agrupamiento, integración y evaluación de indicadores ambientales que permitan evaluar el desempeño ambiental garantizando la eficacia de las políticas, estrategias y metas. El procedimiento facilita la selección de indicadores ambientales tomando como base las estrategias y principales cuestiones ambientales, modelos de integración y herramientas tales como ISO 14031, el Balanced Scorecard (BSC) y métodos para la toma de decisiones multicriterio, específicamente el Analytic Network Process. También se propone en el trabajo la obtención de un valor único de desempeño ambiental global, con base en el nivel de cumplimiento de las metas y los indicadores ambientales definidos inicialmente. Para la validación del procedimiento se aplicó en cuatro pequeñas y medianas centrales eléctricas, donde además de evaluar el desempeño ambiental, fue posible identificar los puntos críticos y oportunidades de mejora para re direccionar los esfuerzos y resolver los principales puntos críticos. Apoyo financiero: Parte de esta investigación esta soportada por el proyecto "Desarrollo de herramientas informáticas para soportar la gestión del desarrollo sustentable y el Cambio Climático en territorios y ecosistemas cubanos" (código P211LH001013), perteneciente al programa nacional, Cambio Climático en Cuba: impactos, mitigación y adaptación de la Agencia de Medio Ambiente.
Sustainability have become a big challenge for humankind, organizations of all sectors are being more pressured to address environmental and social responsibility performance in addition to the traditional financial performance. Corporate sustainability is a multidimensional concept, is the translation of Sustainable Development concept at a business level. Sustainability in organizations must be managed and assessed by decision makers, for that reason a multicriteria sustainability performance measurement is necessary. The aim of this paper is combine different important tools that helps to make operative corporate sustainability and sustainability performance measurement in organizations. The combination of Sustainability Balanced Scorecard, multicriteria decisions models like: Analytic Network Process, and Alignment Matrix for Sustainability Strategy, can help managers in sustainability performance measurement and assessment. The result of this paper focus in a Corporate Sustainability Measurement Network design as a first approach for further sustainability performance measurement systems development emphasizing in multicriteria analysis.
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