Sustainability for competitiveness in firms – a systematic literature review.
In: Measuring Business Excellence, Jg. 26 (2022-10-01), Heft 4, S. 433-450
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Purpose: This paper aims to present a systematic review of the literature on sustainability for the competitiveness of firms to identify the state of the art, significant discussions and new research directions. Recently, due to the negative impacts that traditional and unsustainable practices of companies have caused the Planet (e.g. climate change, sanitary crisis), national and international research urgently calls for the assessment of sustainable practices in firms. However, progress seems slow due to a poor understanding of the necessary changes that companies must make in their specific reality. Competitiveness has remained as firms' primary strategy to endure. Some have associated sustainability with an increment of costs, sometimes with a negative impact on its competitiveness. Sometimes generating oppositions from stakeholder and institutions regulations, it is important to explore how these behaviors and dynamics of this relationship between sustainability and competitiveness affect the pursued transition to sustainability. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic review of the literature, which is a scientific tool, is used in this research. It allows reliably and accurately analyzing and constructing conclusions from a broad database. The search was leaked over the 10 years, from 2010 to 2019. As a basis, 182 scientific articles were identified and revised based on methodology selection criteria and 51 articles were revised in detail. Findings: This paper identifies critical variables analyzed in the selected articles, sustainability strategies for competitiveness, strategies for sustainability, organizational aspects for sustainability and competitiveness, measurement of sustainability, models, moderating factors for sustainability and new future research directions. Originality/value: This paper presents state of art about sustainability for competitiveness and identifying key themes and future research directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Sustainability for competitiveness in firms – a systematic literature review.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Lopez-Torres, Gabriela Citlalli ; Montejano-García, Salomón ; Alvarez-Torres, Francisco Javier ; Perez-Ramos, Marcelo de Jesus |
Zeitschrift: | Measuring Business Excellence, Jg. 26 (2022-10-01), Heft 4, S. 433-450 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1368-3047 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1108/MBE-02-2021-0023 |
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