Abstract
The businesses have a critical role in moving the society toward sustainability. The fast changing and dynamic global business environment requires firms to be more flexible to quickly adapt and respond to market changes. Among the forces that drive changes, requirements for corporate responsibility and sustainability are getting more urgent. During such difficult time as this economic downturn, companies are faced with hard choices to survive. Research has acknowledged that addressing sustainability issues is critical to the long-term existence and thriving of companies. The concept of sustainability makes it necessary that besides the economic categories and the operational environment protection, it should be considered the social effects of company in management actions. Sustainability business oriented can be realized through developing a corporate target pyramid in enterprise. Such pyramid will help organizations to shape their targets in accepting social, environmental and economic responsibilities. The current research tries to review the research background done till now and depict a perspective of an integrated target pyramid for both scholars and managers. Furthermore, this paper has a holistic look toward the concept of sustainable information system.
Highlights
Introduction and Research BackgroundSustainability should be seen as a concrete, integrated and comprehensive concept, that despite consisting three different dimensions but it represent a unified notion
The integration could enlighten the internal relationship between sustainability dimensions and describe that whether their relationships are complementary, conflicting, or neutral
Finding an answer for this question resulted to determine the criteria of sustainability information system which could be used as a pattern for comparing information systems regarding with the concept of sustainability
Summary
Sustainability should be seen as a concrete, integrated and comprehensive concept, that despite consisting three different dimensions but it represent a unified notion. Chen [4] considered a question about how information systems can help organizations develop ecological sustainability. The literatures often concentrated on the environmental aspect of sustainability and neglect to study the social concerns and the inter-linkage between social dimension with environmental and economic aspects of sustainability. Regarding this issue, the first question that must be addressed in assessing the social sustainability of a corporation is which social impacts or indicators should be considered? An integrated assessment for sustainability involves a comprehensive consideration of the economic, social, environmental, and other relevant aspects of the entity, including the relationships among all these factors. It is tried to fill these gaps, and to provide implication for both of scholars and managers
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