The Development of SustainabilityudStrategic Management Assessment Toolud(From a Systematic Literature Review to a Conceptual Framework)

摘要

With the increased of interest in how organizationsudare contributing to the achievement of a more sustainable world, there is a growing need for a better way to develop, assess and measure organizations sustainability performance. In organizations, the best way to achieve this is by initially selecting balanced sustainability indicators. This paper discussed a three stage systematic literature review that being deployed as the research framework and reviewed 63 selected articles out of 875udpapers from Science Direct database. It identified two majorudapproaches were used in selecting sustainability indicators:udcriteria-based and model-based. Based on our review, bothudapproaches have their strengths and weaknesses which areuddependent on the organizations’ level of sustainabilityudunderstanding and efforts. The review also showed that both approaches have similar popularity in publication: 57% for criteria-based and 43% for model-based. At the end, the paper showed that model-based approach was chosen to develop the conceptual framework, in which a set of sustainability indicators will be formulated and embedded to the model, but the indicators will be selected based on the different sustainability effort levels of the organizations. For future direction, the conceptual framework will be developed using the underlying concept of Sustainability Strategic Management into an assessment tool namely Sustainability Strategic Management Assessment Tool; it is a set of methods, forms or maps that organizations can use to measure the readiness level in initiating sustainability efforts orudto chart the progression in achieving their target of sustainability.