Sustainability in Organizational Context: a comparative analysis of models that suggest paths for its management

Abstract

This article, considering the lack of sources that synthesize propositions models for sustainability management in an organizational context, after identifying five models, proposes to compare them making use of a reference frame created to represent ideal conditions for sustainability management in organizations. For the comparative analysis were identified conceptual advances, convergences, and weaknesses. A key finding reveals the incompleteness of the models. As they are compared with each other and with the reference frame all of them have shown fails in some fundamental respect for achieving organizational sustainability. It was realized the need for greater insights when it comes to deploying and operating models of sustainability management in organizations. In summary, this study provided to create information to eliminating weaknesses and to suggest improvements. This can guide improvements applicable to the development of a global unifying framework of good experiences to systemic and structural management organizational sustainability.