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A contribution for the understanding and measurement of production sustainability
| Resumo: | Sustainability is an imperative of present and future production activity. Sustainability is concerned with the environment protection, safety and welfare of present and future generations. Business success, both in manufacturing and services, must be measured against results contributing to sustainability. This means that business practices must be based on strategies that assertively address not only economic issues but also social and environmental ones, the three dimensions being referred as the triple-bottom-line approach (TBL). A company must therefore strive to measure and evaluate its sustainability stand and the effects of strategies on sustainability evolution on the TBL dimensions. In the literature there are a lot of studies, guidelines and recommendations on sustainability of companies and production and sustainability reporting, but apparently there is a serious difficulty in measuring the sustainability stand and evolution of companies and production dependent on strategies, and therefore difficulty to manage production activity towards sustainability. This dissertation gives an overview of the available literature on sustainability of companies, focusing on indicators of sustainability on the TBL dimensions and on composite indicators of these dimensions, with an emphasis on production sustainability. Finally an attempt to create an index to evaluate sustainability of a company is made. This index is based on the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). An example of application of this index for sustainability evaluation of a company on the TBL dimensions is presented. |
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| Autores principais: | Lago, David Rodríguez |
| Assunto: | Sustainability frameworks Sustainability indicators Sustainability measurement AHP Abordagens à sustentabilidade Indicadores de sustentabilidade Medição de sustentabilidade Engenharia e Tecnologia::Outras Engenharias e Tecnologias |
| Ano: | 2015 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | Sustainability is an imperative of present and future production activity. Sustainability is concerned with the environment protection, safety and welfare of present and future generations. Business success, both in manufacturing and services, must be measured against results contributing to sustainability. This means that business practices must be based on strategies that assertively address not only economic issues but also social and environmental ones, the three dimensions being referred as the triple-bottom-line approach (TBL). A company must therefore strive to measure and evaluate its sustainability stand and the effects of strategies on sustainability evolution on the TBL dimensions. In the literature there are a lot of studies, guidelines and recommendations on sustainability of companies and production and sustainability reporting, but apparently there is a serious difficulty in measuring the sustainability stand and evolution of companies and production dependent on strategies, and therefore difficulty to manage production activity towards sustainability. This dissertation gives an overview of the available literature on sustainability of companies, focusing on indicators of sustainability on the TBL dimensions and on composite indicators of these dimensions, with an emphasis on production sustainability. Finally an attempt to create an index to evaluate sustainability of a company is made. This index is based on the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). An example of application of this index for sustainability evaluation of a company on the TBL dimensions is presented. |
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