How Corporations Deal with Reporting Sustainability: Assessment Using the Multicriteria Logistic Biplot Approach

Abstract

This paper suggests a new methodology capable of accessing in detail the contribution of companies to countries' sustainability related to economic performance. The concept of sustainability has been brought up in several debates, leading to a clearer understanding of its progress in recent decades. The most adequate indicators to achieve a unique value to define sustainability have been identified. However, specific behaviors of economic agents such as exist in particularly large organizations, have rarely been exposed and evaluated regarding their positive or negative contribution to the increase of sustainability throughout the world. This paper proposes an integrated approach incorporating an evaluation of the positive and negative contributions to sustainability by means of a logistic biplot application. This allows the creation of a summarized index that combines all single sustainability indicators. These synthetic indices allow the positioning of each of the companies in a geometric representation for an original exploration of the sustainability paradigm. The supplied method permits accessing and evaluating information concerning specific behaviors of economic agents such as big companies. In our paper, we have followed the engagements towards sustainability of big corporations, individually or as groups, across the different activity sectors in Portugal and Spain. OPEN ACCESSSystems 2015, 3 7

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“…For more detailed on the geometric properties of the external logistic biplot and the rules for you interpretation, consult other researchers (see Gallego‐Álvarez, Ortas, Vicente‐Villardón, & Álvarez Etxeberria, ; Gallego‐Álvarez & Vicente‐Villardón, ; Torres‐Salinas, Robinson‐García, Jiménez‐Contreras, Herrera, & López‐Cózar, ; Vicente‐Villardón et al, ). This technique has been used in others studies (e.g., García‐Pérez, Muñoz‐Torres, & Fernández‐Izquierdo, ; Tejedor‐Flores, Galindo‐Villardón, & Vicente‐Galindo, ; Vicente Galindo, Vaz, & de Noronha, ; de Noronha Vaz, Galindo, de Noronha Vaz, & Nijkamp, ; P. V. Galindo, de Noronha Vaz, & Nijkamp, ; Rodero, Sanz‐Valero, & Galindo‐Villardón, ).…”

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“…algorithm was proposed by Vicente-Villardón, Galindo-Villardón, and Blázquez-Zaballos (2006) and its application includes different fields of study: analysis of performance innovation (de Noronha Vaz, Galindo, de Noronha Vaz, & Nijkamp, 2015) and sustainability studies (Gallego-Álvarez, Galindo-Villardón, & Rodríguez-Rosa, 2015;Vicente Galindo, Vaz, & de Noronha, 2015), among others.…”

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“…However these methods are inadequate for binary data [19]. To understand the sustainability gradients (or latent composite indices) of the companies and their relationship to the observed characteristics and their graphical representation, an algorithm, as proposed by Vicente-Villardon, Galindo-Villardon & Blazquez-Zaballos was applied [20].…”

“…Some additional information about the goodness of fit of each index is also provided. This method has been used by Vicente-Galindo et al [19], to analyse the behavioural patterns of innovation for different regions.…”