DEVELOPING FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS SYSTEM (SIS) FOR THE REMANUFACTURING COMPANIES FROM AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY- RESEARCH RESULTS
The aim of this paper is to provide results of research on the development of Sustainability Indicators System (SIS) for sustainability assessment in remanufacturing companies from automotive industry. Research was carried out within the project "Sustainability in Remanufacturing Operations” (h...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Publishing House of Rzeszow University of Technology
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Modern Management Review |
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| Online Access: | http://doi.prz.edu.pl/pl/pdf/zim/260 |
| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to provide results of research on the development of Sustainability Indicators System (SIS) for sustainability assessment in remanufacturing companies from automotive industry. Research was carried out within the project "Sustainability in Remanufacturing Operations” (hereafter: SIRO), representing cooperation between Poland and German for sustainable development accomplishment at the Faculty of Engineering Management at the Poznan University of Technology in 2012-2014. Sustainable development (hereafter: SD) is a concept based on three pillars including: Economy, Environment and Society, which remain in the trade-off relationship to each other. This implies difficulties in implementing the SD concept. Another equally important issue is the difficulty of the activities’ assessment of compatibility with the basis of the concept. Authors state that, in order to realize the SD concept at the company level, the development of the measurement system is required. In the first place, it provides the assessment of the actual state, with simultaneous determining the course of future actions. To address this challenge, authors in the result of conducted research propose SIS consisted of 15 indicators suitable for integrated SD assessment. It was assumed that there is lack of appropriate indicators set capable to address integrated SD assessment at the remanufacturing company level. Previous studies present the opportunity to evaluate the different SD pillars, however, the disadvantage of these solutions is the multiplicity and unclarity of the proposed methodology. Therefore, as part of the study, the authors propose a clear methodology of sustainability assessment for remanufacturing companies. |
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| ISSN: | 2300-6366 2353-0758 |