A Preliminary Investigation into the Environmental and Social …
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• Supplier development practices—promoting development in providers, but not
necessarily, with a view to social development, but of an economic nature;
• Corporate responsibility—translated into responsibilities that should be dealt with
in a balanced way, but which, nevertheless, aim at responsibilities with regard, in
the majority, only to the technical productive process;
• Decision making and organizational sustainability—keeping the company’s
image, or making decisions that target production itself;
• Project management—that develop products that are “easy to sell” to the public
that believes in environmental sustainability, however, the focus is only on the
product and not on the concern with the social and environmental dimension,
among others.
However, the immediate and extreme need for research on topics, such as socioenvironmental education; social and environmental awareness, behavior, responsible management, eco-efficiency, social equity, social and environmental impacts,
biodiversity, supply management, environmental education, ecological and/or nature
conservation and which require the commitment of the State, companies and people
at the same time, not many results were seen. This study found that there is no equalization of the social and environmental dimensions in the Triple Bottom Line, the
dimensions are unbalanced and unfair, since, in its initial stages, only the economic
dimension has been evident and, in the subsequent moments, the two still remain in
unbalanced, after all, further improvements, education and the updating of government agencies (laws and regulations), companies (productive resources and production models) and people (awareness and knowledge of cause). The publications show
that organizations adopt sustainable means only when it is required, for increasing
market share or for having a misunderstand regarding the function of the triple -
which necessarily values the balance of the three dimensions. Not least, because the
majority claims that the adoption of sustainable methods is still very expensive and,
since the majority doesn’t yet have the resources automatically, they end up with the
“old practices”.
Understanding that there is a lack of dialogue and engagement between the actors,
which ends up harming a greater percentage of people who think about future generations, but in a conscious and polite, polite with meaning of knowledge of the risks—
resultant the negative impacts regarding not only the environment and the social, but
also the economic, because, currently, it is only thought about financially, but have
a money tomorrow may not necessarily mean a competitive advantage.
When this happens, the necessary balance of the triple is promoted, reducing
poverty, inequality, the exhaustion of productive resources and having environmental
management and education that generates welfare and quality of life for society, who
knows, this will be very close to positive indicators and on the path of long-dreamed
sustainable development. There are more studies and construction proposals are
needed that give greater attention to the social and environmental dimension, due
to the fact that the results of the keywords are more evident and the number of
publications (despite being a small universe, considering that publications from the
last 5 years were analyzed) do not consider the equality of the two dimensions,
435
• Supplier development practices—promoting development in providers, but not
necessarily, with a view to social development, but of an economic nature;
• Corporate responsibility—translated into responsibilities that should be dealt with
in a balanced way, but which, nevertheless, aim at responsibilities with regard, in
the majority, only to the technical productive process;
• Decision making and organizational sustainability—keeping the company’s
image, or making decisions that target production itself;
• Project management—that develop products that are “easy to sell” to the public
that believes in environmental sustainability, however, the focus is only on the
product and not on the concern with the social and environmental dimension,
among others.
However, the immediate and extreme need for research on topics, such as socioenvironmental education; social and environmental awareness, behavior, responsible management, eco-efficiency, social equity, social and environmental impacts,
biodiversity, supply management, environmental education, ecological and/or nature
conservation and which require the commitment of the State, companies and people
at the same time, not many results were seen. This study found that there is no equalization of the social and environmental dimensions in the Triple Bottom Line, the
dimensions are unbalanced and unfair, since, in its initial stages, only the economic
dimension has been evident and, in the subsequent moments, the two still remain in
unbalanced, after all, further improvements, education and the updating of government agencies (laws and regulations), companies (productive resources and production models) and people (awareness and knowledge of cause). The publications show
that organizations adopt sustainable means only when it is required, for increasing
market share or for having a misunderstand regarding the function of the triple -
which necessarily values the balance of the three dimensions. Not least, because the
majority claims that the adoption of sustainable methods is still very expensive and,
since the majority doesn’t yet have the resources automatically, they end up with the
“old practices”.
Understanding that there is a lack of dialogue and engagement between the actors,
which ends up harming a greater percentage of people who think about future generations, but in a conscious and polite, polite with meaning of knowledge of the risks—
resultant the negative impacts regarding not only the environment and the social, but
also the economic, because, currently, it is only thought about financially, but have
a money tomorrow may not necessarily mean a competitive advantage.
When this happens, the necessary balance of the triple is promoted, reducing
poverty, inequality, the exhaustion of productive resources and having environmental
management and education that generates welfare and quality of life for society, who
knows, this will be very close to positive indicators and on the path of long-dreamed
sustainable development. There are more studies and construction proposals are
needed that give greater attention to the social and environmental dimension, due
to the fact that the results of the keywords are more evident and the number of
publications (despite being a small universe, considering that publications from the
last 5 years were analyzed) do not consider the equality of the two dimensions,