Financial Performance - Organizational Sustainability Relationship. Literature Review
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https://doi.org/10.47743/saeb-2023-0016Keywords:
organizational sustainability, financial performance, sustainable developmentAbstract
Organizational sustainability efforts focus on three main areas: people, profit, and the environment (Elkington, 1998). With an increasing emphasis on sustainable development, economic entities are concerned with achieving long-term performance, the capacity to create value and to meet the needs of interest groups (investors, employees, customers, communities, local development), but also on the development, promotion and implementation of concrete actions for environmental protection. This study aims to identify the current stage of the relationship between sustainable development and financial performance, in order to identify key elements, trends and research gaps. Based on these considerations, we performed a quantitative analysis of a sample of 62 articles from 3 databases (ScienceDirect, Scopus and Web of Science), which we subsequently studied qualitatively.
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