Sustainability in Brazilian firms based on the dimensions of Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE): considering project management efforts.

Abstract

Sustainability is still a challenge for organizations and business people are part of it. The corporate changes are provided by projects and, in this context, projects become a means to reach sustainable development. Some sustainable indexes were developed in different countries in order to make available reliable information about company behaviors. ISE (Corporate Sustainability Index), the Brazilian index, offers the analysis of a group of companies. In this context, this paper is proposed to explore the variables analyzed in ISE surveys and the results published in the ISE platform, considering the dimensions and best practices approached and possible correlation between them. The aim of this research is to understand the correlation between the dimensions approached. This is an exploratory study and the method followed was quantitative. The secondary data used to perform the analysis was from ISE database questionnaires that were answered by firms from different industries. Our findings show that there is correlation between the TBL (Triple Bottom Line) and the ISE questionnaires, it was identified that corporate governance grows the TBL also grows.