IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/prbchp/978-3-031-65115-1_8.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Sustainability Opportunity Study (SOS)–The Case of Swedish Cement and Concrete

In: Embracing Sustainability Management Through Excellence in Services

Author

Listed:
  • Raine Isaksson

    (Uppsala University
    Lulea University of Technology)

  • Max Rosvall

    (Uppsala University)

  • Arezou Baba Ahmadi

    (Chalmers University)

Abstract

The purpose in this paper is to do a Sustainability Opportunity Study (SOS) for Swedish cement and concrete production, while simultaneously improving the theoretical concept. There seems to be no agreed way of measuring organizational sustainability and sustainable development in common value chains, such as the building value chain. Without agreed definitions, agreed performance indicators are probably missing. Sustainability indicators can be proposed by doing an SOS, which identifies the main sustainability impacts in the studied value chain with focus on stakeholder needs. With proposed sustainability indicators, the improvement potential can be assessed. The SOS also identifies causes for the existing potential and proposes solutions. The starting point is the SOS matrix that combines the logic of Understanding-Defining-Measuring with the Opportunity Study steps of Diagnosing-Analysing-Solving. Results demonstrate that the SOS can be adapted to Swedish cement and concrete production resulting in proposed sustainability KPIs, identified main causes and proposed ways forwards.

Suggested Citation

  • Raine Isaksson & Max Rosvall & Arezou Baba Ahmadi, 2024. "The Sustainability Opportunity Study (SOS)–The Case of Swedish Cement and Concrete," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Maria Vincenza Ciasullo & Jacques Martin & Federico Brunetti (ed.), Embracing Sustainability Management Through Excellence in Services, pages 141-161, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-65115-1_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-65115-1_8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-65115-1_8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.