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  5. 10.46354/i3m.2018.hms.013

Multi-capitals sustainability for firms competitiveness

  • a Francesco Longo  , 
  • b Letizia Nicoletti  , 
  • c Antonio Padovano  
  • d Caterina Fusto  ,
  • e Lucia Gazzaneo  , 
  • f Riccardo di Matteo  
  • a,c,d,e DIMEG, University of Calabria, Italy
  • b CAL-TEK Srl
  • f  Simulation Team, DIME, University of Genoa, Italy
Cite as
F. Longo, L. Nicoletti, A. Padovano, C. Fusto, L. Gazzaneo, R. di Matteo (2018). Multi-capitals sustainability for firms competitiveness. Proceedings of the 20st International Conference on Harbor, Maritime and Multimodal Logistic Modeling & Simulation (HMS 2018), pp. 83-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2018.hms.013

Abstract

Many executives wrongly believe that synchronizing organizational, environmental and societal needs in an integrated way is a noble initiative worthy of admiration but basically a waste of resources. Most of them prefer making data-driven business decisions and the holistic nature of sustainability does not encourage them to invest significantly in this direction. Therefore this article provides details on the definition of a Multicapital Sustainable Framework (MSF) as a fullyevolved, all-inclusive, both theoretical and applicable framework to support an organization-specific, multicapital-oriented, multi-method and quantitative enterprise’s performance assessment.

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