Business Process Management Journal: Volume 12 Issue 6

Sustainable development in an industrial enterprise: the case of Ontario Hydro

Nigel John Roome, Ronald Bergin

This paper seeks to present a longitudinal case study of Ontario Hydro – an industrial organization that used sustainable development as the basis for a strategy of social and…

Stakeholder engagement, social auditing and corporate sustainability

Simon S. Gao, Jane J. Zhang

To identify the applicability of social auditing as an approach of engaging stakeholders in assessing and reporting on corporate sustainability and its performance.

Sustainability: aligning corporate governance, strategy and operations with the planet

Wayne Cartwright, John L. Craig

To demonstrate that mainstream current ethical stances of corporate governance and associated strategic and operational management are contributors to global unsustainability, and…

An activity based management methodology for evaluating business processes for environmental sustainability

Joseph Sarkis, Laura Meade, Adrien Presley

This paper seeks to introduce a conceptual methodology to support decisions about environmental systems.

An integrated approach for risk‐based life cycle assessment and multi‐criteria decision‐making: Selection, design and evaluation of cleaner and greener processes

Rehan Sadiq, Faisal I. Khan

This paper proposes an integrated methodology for process design to guide decision making under uncertainty by combining life cycle assessment (LCA) with multi‐criteria…

STEPS: a knowledge management maturity roadmap for corporate sustainability

H.S. Robinson, C.J. Anumba, P.M. Carrillo, A.M. Al‐Ghassani

The paper seeks to focus on the role of knowledge management in promoting corporate sustainability in the construction industry context. It proposes a maturity roadmap – STEPS to…

Insights into triple bottom line integration from a learning organization perspective

D. Jamali

The notion of sustainability has been evolving and is increasingly understood to encompass considerations of economic viability, as well as environmental sustainability and social…

Challenging the implementation of corporate sustainability: The case of automotive engine remanufacturing

Margarete A. Seitz, Peter E. Wells

To provide in‐depth insights into one specific product recovery operation (remanufacturing) in the automotive sector, taking the example of original equipment manufacturers (OEM).

Awards for Excellence

Guest editorial

Christopher Seow, Ruth Hillary