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Pathways to Greener Pastures: Research Opportunities to Integrate Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Business Process Management Based on a Systematic Tertiary Literature Review

Fritsch, Andreas 1; von Hammerstein, Johanna 1; Schreiber, Clemens ORCID iD icon 1; Betz, Stefanie; Oberweis, Andreas ORCID iD icon 1
1 Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Sustainable Business Process Management (BPM) is a research field that aims to improve the sustainability performance of organizations’ operations. With its focus on business processes, it has the potential to bring sustainability considerations from external reporting to the core of organizations. We present a systematic tertiary literature study to provide a catalog of existing literature reviews and primary work and to give a consolidated overview of the state and research needs of the field. We find that Sustainable BPM research has focused on modeling approaches and most of the work so far is largely conceptual, with a limited sustainability perspective. Based on these findings, we propose an integration of BPM and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), an established and rigorous method for sustainability analysis. We present research opportunities to show how both disciplines can synergize and leverage methods and techniques for business process automation and innovation to effectively improve the sustainability performance of organizations.


Verlagsausgabe §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000151645
Veröffentlicht am 20.10.2022
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.3390/su141811164
Scopus
Zitationen: 3
Web of Science
Zitationen: 1
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Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2022
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2071-1050
KITopen-ID: 1000151645
Erschienen in Sustainability
Verlag MDPI
Band 14
Heft 18
Seiten Art.-Nr.: 11164
Bemerkung zur Veröffentlichung Gefördert durch den KIT-Publikationsfonds
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 06.09.2022
Schlagwörter sustainable business process management, systematic literature review, life cycle assessment, sustainable development, research opportunities
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