TY - JOUR
T1 - Managing the triple bottom line for sustainability
T2 - A case study of argentine agribusinesses
AU - Arora, Poonam
AU - Peterson, Nicole D.
AU - Bert, Federico
AU - Podesta, Guillermo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - Using surveys and interviews with Argentine agribusiness owners and managers, we examine the relative importance of economic, environmental, and social goals in their planning processes. While in one survey, respondents rate these three objectives as equally important, they also prioritize economic goals over environmental and social targets when assigning points based on the importance of decisions made for various sub-categories. Discussions of specific scenarios illuminate goal importance, but also demonstrate that perceived losses can be valuable for understanding how managers think about sustainability in terms of comparative economic gains, social relationships, and different social and economic outcomes. Subsequent analyses suggest that the three categories of the “triple bottom line” are overly rigid and cannot capture the integration among environmental, economic, and social aspects of sustainability. Given these findings, we suggest future directions for research on losses, time scales, and sustainability.
AB - Using surveys and interviews with Argentine agribusiness owners and managers, we examine the relative importance of economic, environmental, and social goals in their planning processes. While in one survey, respondents rate these three objectives as equally important, they also prioritize economic goals over environmental and social targets when assigning points based on the importance of decisions made for various sub-categories. Discussions of specific scenarios illuminate goal importance, but also demonstrate that perceived losses can be valuable for understanding how managers think about sustainability in terms of comparative economic gains, social relationships, and different social and economic outcomes. Subsequent analyses suggest that the three categories of the “triple bottom line” are overly rigid and cannot capture the integration among environmental, economic, and social aspects of sustainability. Given these findings, we suggest future directions for research on losses, time scales, and sustainability.
KW - Agribusiness
KW - Argentina
KW - Managing for sustainability
KW - Social goals
KW - Triple Bottom Line
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U2 - 10.1080/15487733.2016.11908154
DO - 10.1080/15487733.2016.11908154
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84981352059
VL - 12
SP - 60
EP - 75
JO - Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy
JF - Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy
SN - 1548-7733
IS - 1
ER -