Adopting the Materiality Principle in Sustainable Operations Management

Michel Leseure; David Bennett

doi:10.3390/su16156572

Adopting the Materiality Principle in Sustainable Operations Management

Michel Leseure^*, David Bennett

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This paper argues that operations management needs a commonly understood materiality principle to truly contribute to sustainability. A framework initially developed in international finance is generalized and used to model firms as borrowing resources from a common creditor, the environment, and to establish when a sustainable initiative is material in terms of impact. Our framework also solves the long-standing challenge of measuring impact at the level of an operations unit of analysis.

Original language	English
Article number	6572
Number of pages	17
Journal	Sustainability
Volume	16
Issue number	15
Early online date	31 Jul 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su16156572
Publication status	Published - Aug 2024

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materiality

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