A sustainability maturity model for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) based on a data analytics evaluation approach
| Autor: | Giulia Bruno, Edwin Puertas, Paolo Claudio Priarone, Santiago Aguirre, Luca Settineri, Jenifer Vásquez |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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020209 energy
Strategy and Management 02 engineering and technology Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Production (economics) 0505 law General Environmental Science Maturity model LEMB Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment 05 social sciences Building and Construction Environmental economics Maturity (finance) Capability Maturity Model Sustainability Scale (social sciences) Data analytics Small and medium-sized enterprises 050501 criminology Data analysis Business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 311, 2021 Repositorio Institucional UTB Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar instacron:Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar |
| Popis: | A maturity model for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) is introduced to assess the level of implementation of sustainability strategies and practices in this type of business. According to the literature, only a few sustainability-maturity assessment models intended for MSMEs have integrated the following three factors: environmental knowledge management, environmental strategies and good practices, and environmental management systems. The sustainability maturity model proposed here for MSMEs is capable of supporting the efforts of companies in their attempts to achieve both environmental sustainability and an improvement in their production systems. The model encompasses a four-level qualitative scale and uses supervised classification algorithms to categorize companies through data analysis techniques. After applying the model to a group of MSMEs from different productive sectors in Colombia, the results have shown that 6% of the companies were at an insufficient level, 31% were at an initial level, 45% at a developed sustainability maturity level, and 18% at a consolidated level. This result implies that the decision makers in the latter group have paid greater attention to the strengthening of sustainability progress capabilities and, hence, to the definition of a maturation route. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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