The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard as a Framework for Eco-Efficiency Analysis
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T1 - The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard as a Framework for Eco-Efficiency Analysis
AU - Möller, Andreas
AU - Schaltegger, Stefan
N1 - Literaturverz. S. 82 - 83
PY - 2005/9
Y1 - 2005/9
N2 - To provide valuable support for successful decision-making, managers need a balanced set of financial and nonfinancial measures that represent different requirements, strategic goals, strategies, resources, and capabilities and the causal relationships between these domains. The balanced scorecard is such a measurement system. As an open system the balanced scorecard facilitates the consideration of sustainability issues. But enhanced balanced scorecards require a new type of data. This is where eco-efficiency analysis comes into play. This article discusses the relationship between so-called sustainability balanced scorecards and eco-efficiency analysis. Eco-efficiency analysis not only provides a data source for sustainability balanced scorecards; in the perspective of environmental information systems it also serves as a link between the balanced scorecard and corporate environmental accounting systems so that eco-efficiency as a component of an environmental information system becomes an adapter with two interfaces, which are characterized in this article. The main focus is on the principle of cause and effect, its different forms, and the implications for the design of appropriate information system components.
AB - To provide valuable support for successful decision-making, managers need a balanced set of financial and nonfinancial measures that represent different requirements, strategic goals, strategies, resources, and capabilities and the causal relationships between these domains. The balanced scorecard is such a measurement system. As an open system the balanced scorecard facilitates the consideration of sustainability issues. But enhanced balanced scorecards require a new type of data. This is where eco-efficiency analysis comes into play. This article discusses the relationship between so-called sustainability balanced scorecards and eco-efficiency analysis. Eco-efficiency analysis not only provides a data source for sustainability balanced scorecards; in the perspective of environmental information systems it also serves as a link between the balanced scorecard and corporate environmental accounting systems so that eco-efficiency as a component of an environmental information system becomes an adapter with two interfaces, which are characterized in this article. The main focus is on the principle of cause and effect, its different forms, and the implications for the design of appropriate information system components.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - Umweltbezogenes Management
KW - Balanced Scorecard
KW - Nachhaltigkeit
KW - strategic management
KW - strategy maps
KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication
KW - Umweltbezogenes Management
KW - Balanced Scorecard
KW - Nachhaltigkeit
KW - sustainablity indicators
KW - Ecosystems Research
KW - Eco-efficiency
KW - enviromental information systems
KW - industrial ecology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33750618394&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1162/108819805775247927
DO - 10.1162/108819805775247927
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 9
SP - 73
EP - 83
JO - Journal of Industrial Ecology
JF - Journal of Industrial Ecology
SN - 1088-1980
IS - 4
ER -