Abstract
Successful firms pursue organizational sustainability. The aim of this study is to explore the direct and indirect factors affecting on organizational sustainability. Indirect factors being those that first influence competitive advantage, and then affecting organizational sustainability. This study analyzes 145 articles retrieved from the SDOL (Science Driect Online) database that were published between 2009 and January 2013. Papers were retrieved using ‘organizational sustainability’ and ‘competitive advantage’ as keywords, searching on ‘Abstract, Title, Keywords’, and subject headings of ‘Business, Management and Accounting’. The results identify that 13 indirect factors and 3 direct factors can have an impact on organizational sustainability.
Highlights
The United Nation’s 1989 Brundtland Commission definition of sustainability is ‘‘meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations’’ and According to the OECD’s definition, sustainability means“linking the economic, social and environmental objectives of societies in a balanced way” and “about the consequences of today’s activities which meet the challenge of sustainable development and require that the process through which decisions are reached is informed by the full range of possible consequences, and is accountable to the public” (Farneti & Guthrie, 2009; Mohrman & Worley, 2010)
A sustainable business depends on economics, especially the economics of sustainability (Guest, 2010), and Islam and Clarke (2005) demonstrate that sustainability is often associated with economics and aims at economic growth
Several factors are an important influence on competitive advantage, they were studied only one or two times during the same period, such as organizational culture (Dawson, 2012), brand management (Santos-Vijande, Río-Lanza, Suárez-Álvarez, & Díaz-Martín, 2013), customer relationship management (CRM) (Phan & Vogel, 2010), and technology systems (Chen & Chen, 2009), and so on
Summary
This study examines two sets of factorSs that affect organizational sustainability, direct and indirect. Direct factors influence organizational sustainability, and so ‘organizational sustainability’ was taken as a keyword, searching on ‘Abstract, Title, Keywords’, in addition to the subject headings of ‘Business, Management and Accounting’. Four articles published between 2009 and January 2013 were retrieved from the SDOL (Science Driect Online) database. Indirect factors influence organizational sustainability through competitive advantage, and again ‘competitive advantage’ was taken as a keyword to search on ‘Abstract, Title, Keywords’, in addition to the same subject headings. A total of 364 articles were retrieved from SDOL, of which 145 published between 2009 and January 2013 were used
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
