Social Sustainability in Business Organizations: A Research Agenda

Since the economic crisis in 2008, world has seen a partly negative shift social progress, highlighting that current models and practices do not guarantee long-lasting societal human wellbeing. Economic business are deeply intertwined; thus, businesses play major role advancement of sustainability, academic research can offer support navigating complexity this issue. However, sustainability tends to be under-researched. This article summarizes discussion general management, product development, supply-chain from suggest agenda help guiding systematic change organizations towards sustainability. The identifies ten main challenges offers five recommendations move field forward, namely, more explicit engagement with systems-science based ideas, determination as converge on key pieces leading clearer definition concept. Lastly, it recommends needs focus how overcome fragmented organizational structures, achieve true integration into existing processes tools, become dynamic working these issues.