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R. F. da Silva and E. R. Filho
1 Introduction
The Sustainable Development, as defended in the Report of Our Common Future of
the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) (1988) advocates
meeting the needs and aspirations of the present generation without compromising
the ability of future generations to do the same.
Elkington (2011) ratifies this understanding by proposing the Triple Bottom Line
(TBL), a concept based on three essential pillars (PPP-Profit, People and Planet),
interpreting sustainability through integration of economic, social and ecological
perspectives.
TBL presents itself as a tool to support decision makers (Maia and Pires 2011),
enabling the elaboration of parameters and measurement of corporate performance,
based on perceptions, procedures, and precepts formulated in order to reduce the
resulting negative impacts of organizational activity and generate value to its stakeholders (Petrini 2006).
However, the adoption of a decision-making process based on sustainable principles is still considered a challenge (Martínez and Bringas 2014), since it requires
the decision maker to deal with unstructured problems, composed by subjective and
contrasting variables, simultaneously (Guerry et al. 2015).
Whereas supporting organizations to make decisions in a sustainable way can help
the world to develop in a fairer and more harmonious way, and the academy has the
relevant instruments to provide such aid, it is proposed as an objective to investigate
how publications in national and international journals, addressed the relationship
between corporate sustainability and decision making in the period between 2008
and 2017.
It is noticed that the analysis of this theme presents contributions of academic and
practical nature, since a theoretical framework will be generated for future studies,
as well as a current and reliable picture of the main scientific discoveries in this
area, subsidizing the organizations in the implementation of actions that stabilize the
various dimensions of sustainability.
The present study is structured in five sections: the first, introductory; the second
presents the theoretical foundations that underpin the research; the third describes
the methodology used; the fourth analyzes and discusses the results found; and the
fifth presents the conclusions and suggestions for future studies.
2 Theoretical Grounding
In the continuation, the essential concepts that support the present work are presented, firstly outlining the Sustainable Development, to next address the Business
Sustainability, finishing this foundation with an explanation about Sustainable Decision Making.
R. F. da Silva and E. R. Filho
1 Introduction
The Sustainable Development, as defended in the Report of Our Common Future of
the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) (1988) advocates
meeting the needs and aspirations of the present generation without compromising
the ability of future generations to do the same.
Elkington (2011) ratifies this understanding by proposing the Triple Bottom Line
(TBL), a concept based on three essential pillars (PPP-Profit, People and Planet),
interpreting sustainability through integration of economic, social and ecological
perspectives.
TBL presents itself as a tool to support decision makers (Maia and Pires 2011),
enabling the elaboration of parameters and measurement of corporate performance,
based on perceptions, procedures, and precepts formulated in order to reduce the
resulting negative impacts of organizational activity and generate value to its stakeholders (Petrini 2006).
However, the adoption of a decision-making process based on sustainable principles is still considered a challenge (Martínez and Bringas 2014), since it requires
the decision maker to deal with unstructured problems, composed by subjective and
contrasting variables, simultaneously (Guerry et al. 2015).
Whereas supporting organizations to make decisions in a sustainable way can help
the world to develop in a fairer and more harmonious way, and the academy has the
relevant instruments to provide such aid, it is proposed as an objective to investigate
how publications in national and international journals, addressed the relationship
between corporate sustainability and decision making in the period between 2008
and 2017.
It is noticed that the analysis of this theme presents contributions of academic and
practical nature, since a theoretical framework will be generated for future studies,
as well as a current and reliable picture of the main scientific discoveries in this
area, subsidizing the organizations in the implementation of actions that stabilize the
various dimensions of sustainability.
The present study is structured in five sections: the first, introductory; the second
presents the theoretical foundations that underpin the research; the third describes
the methodology used; the fourth analyzes and discusses the results found; and the
fifth presents the conclusions and suggestions for future studies.
2 Theoretical Grounding
In the continuation, the essential concepts that support the present work are presented, firstly outlining the Sustainable Development, to next address the Business
Sustainability, finishing this foundation with an explanation about Sustainable Decision Making.