Abstract
The purpose of this research is to frame the hierarchical pathway treading the sustainability factors from driving to dependent elements. Hence, this study starts with a brief literature review of the sustainable organization which enables the expansion of sustainability into essential factors. Experts further verified these identified factors and used for framing the hierarchical framework of sustainability in organizations. Total Interpretive Structural Modeling (TISM) has been applied for identifying the driving factor of sustainability and delivering the crucial links among the sustainability factors in organizations. While most of the organizations focus on sustainability by considering the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) framework, this paper has presented the fourth dimension of sustainability which drives sustainability in organizations. The hierarchical relationship is vital to identify the vitality and significance of factors. This in turn provides an efficient approach to achieve sustainability in organizations. The expert’s review has been calculated statistically to validate the factors and conceptual hierarchical framework. Hence, the policymakers make use of sustainability hierarchy to frame a correct and efficient policy for maintaining sustainable practices that help managers to shift their priorities of an organization at the managerial level from economic growth to sustainable development. Finally, the future research direction and the limitation of the study are discussed.
Highlights
The sustainability concept has been evolved as an environmental need and gradually moved to the need of dynamic business environment
The final Total Interpretive Structural Modeling (TISM) model represents the path of creating sustainability in the organization with its dependent and driver factors
The final TISM model shows that social aspect is the depending aspect of sustainability and social acceptability is the dependent factor of sustainability
Summary
The sustainability concept has been evolved as an environmental need and gradually moved to the need of dynamic business environment. Before the TBL framework, the primary concern of organizations was economic growth, but it induced environmental and social aspects as two most important aspects along with economic aspects to measure sustainable growth in organizations. It can be termed the 3P aspect as it covers people, profit, and planet [4]. Sustainability seems simple to understand but difficult to conceive by organizations because it requires the collaboration of stakeholders to achieve the comprehensive coverage of its 3P aspect [8,9,10]. Total ten factors have been identified as essential factors which define sustainability in organizations
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