Sustainable development performance assessment

Beloff, Beth; Tanzil, Dicksen; Lines, Marianne

doi:10.1002/ep.10045

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“…In any case, a key component of any corporate sustainability initiative will be the development of a corporate sustainability performance measurement system (SPMS). The notion of corporate sustainability performance measurement has been discussed by Atkinson (2000), Beloff et al (2004), Schwarz et al (2002), Szekely and Knirsch (2005), and Tanzil and Beloff (2006), among others. The closely related areas of environmental (see, for example, Olsthoorn et al 2001) and social (see, for example, Wood 2010) performance measurement have also been extensively discussed in the literature.…”

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Corporate Sustainability Performance Measurement Systems: A Review and Research Agenda

2011

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Corporate sustainability performance measurement systems (SPMS) have been the subject of a growing amount of research. However, there are many challenges and opportunities associated with the design, implementation, use, and evolution of these systems that have yet to be addressed. The purpose of this article is to identify future directions for research in the design, implementation, use, and evolution of corporate SPMS. A concise review of key literature published between 2000 and 2010 is presented. The literature review focuses on research conducted at the both the individual corporation-and sector-levels. The review of published literature provides a basis for the identification of a structured set of 65 key research questions to guide future work. The research questions will be of interest to both practitioners and researchers in corporate sustainability performance measurement.

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Corporate Sustainability Performance Measurement Systems: A Review and Research Agenda

2011

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“…These objectives were generally referred to as three pillars or triple bottom line of sustainability (Earth Charter Initiative, 2000;Hardcastle and Waterman-Hoey, 2010). For instance, Beloff et al (2004) Research Laboratory of US Environmental Protection Agency suggested that sustainability occurs when we maintain or improve the material and social conditions for human health and the environment over time without exceeding the ecological capabilities that support them (Sikdar, 2003).…”

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A framework for research inventory of manufacturing sustainability assessment

Lee¹,

Lee²

2013

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There have been many research papers focused on development of guidelines, indicators, metrics, methods, tools, and systemsall related to sustainability performance assessment. However, manufacturing companies have difficulty in finding papers that are relevant to their sustainability goals and conditions. A research inventory is a data repository for storing research papers in a manner that makes them easy to retrieve. To be successful, therefore, the inventory must have a system for managing, in a systematic manner, the results generated by a large number of researchers around the world. In this paper, we propose a framework for a research inventory that focuses on papers that report on research related to manufacturing sustainability assessment. This proposed framework consists of two parts: an operational definition and a classification scheme. The definition distinguishes between those papers that belong in the inventory and those that do not. The classification scheme is used to tag/code papers for retrieval. We demonstrate the use of this proposed framework using the Sustainable Manufacturing Toolkit of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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“…According Hediger (2000) sustainability is a normative concept which involves trade-offs among social, ecological and economic objectives, and is required to sustain the integrity of the overall system. Beloff et al (2004) sustainable development is a complex concept that encompasses the "triple bottom line": the economic, environmental, and social factors that affect the ability of an organization to survive and grow. The "bottom line" is a metaphor is often attributed to John Elkington, a co-founder and chair of SustainAbility LTD, UK, a sustainable business consultancy (Elkington 2004) arising from within the business lexicon that confers the ability to capture in a unique representation (a number) the effect of a multitude of separate actions (transactions) by systematically representing these actions using a common metric and summing the contributions (benefits) and detriments (costs).…”

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A Review of Sustainability Assessment Methods in Engineering

Hasna¹

2009

The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic,

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Sustainable development performance assessment

Cited by 30 publications

References 3 publications

Corporate Sustainability Performance Measurement Systems: A Review and Research Agenda

Corporate Sustainability Performance Measurement Systems: A Review and Research Agenda

A framework for research inventory of manufacturing sustainability assessment

A Review of Sustainability Assessment Methods in Engineering

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