Integrating sustainability issues into project management

Published Date
Journal of Cleaner Production
1 June 2015, Vol.96:319–330, doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.12.087
Integrating Cleaner Production into Sustainability Strategies

Author 

• Marisa Analía Sánchez ^,

• Departamento de Ciencias de la Administración, Universidad Nacional del Sur, 12 de octubre 1198, Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Received 21 July 2013. Revised 30 December 2013. Accepted 30 December 2013. Available online 17 January 2014. 

Highlights

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  Sustainability in projects is assessed while attending stakeholders' interests.
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  A simultaneous analysis of eco-impacts to organizational goals is performed.
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  Sustainability and project management are integrated in operational terms.
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  Sustainability is assessed both during portfolio selection and project monitoring.
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  Data Envelopment Analysis is used for selection and monitoring of projects.

Abstract

Sustainability was adopted by many companies through their mission statement and strategy. However, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability are difficult to incorporate in programs and projects. The purpose of this work is to develop a framework to help ensure that an organization is working on the right projects to attain its business strategy and stakeholders demands. The proposal addresses both the portfolio selection problem and the project tracking phase. The portfolio selection allows selecting the better mix of projects based on the simultaneous analysis of eco-impacts and contribution to organizational goals. Once a portfolio is selected, monitoring aims to control project realization and decide on adjustments arisen from deviations from initial estimations. Both selection and monitoring are modeled as an optimization problem. The authors believe that this conceptual framework has a good potential for integrating sustainability and project management in operational terms.

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Keywords

• Sustainability management
• Project management
• Stakeholder analysis
• Strategy Map
• Data Envelopment Analysis

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