Abstract

FLOREZ LAISECA, Adriana María; LOAIZA TREJOS, Paola Andrea  and  CORREA VALENCIA, Carlos Iván. Territorial Sustainability: an Endeavour of the Departmental Business Management. Semest. Econ. [online]. 2021, vol.24, n.56, pp.271-297.  Epub Aug 12, 2022. ISSN 0120-6346.  https://doi.org/10.22395/seec.v24n56a12.

This writing summarizes the results obtained during the development of an institutional research, which aimed to evaluate territorial sustainability from the business environmental management, taking into account the theoretical foundation of environmental sustainability and territorial sustainability, from which the analysis is developed transversal of the capitals immersed in the departmental business activity and where the weak sustainability principle is established to carry out the discussion of the results. From a non-parametric method called Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which starts from linear programming to indicate the level of efficiency and productivity of the decision-making units, in this case factors that are recognized for the evaluation of the territorial sustainability, considering inputs and outputs without prior assumptions about the distribution of the data that are provided by the departmental competitiveness index. Finally the conclusions show as the main finding the importance of business environmental management initiatives for territorial sustainability in the departments, where the role that companies play to ensure levels of economic development in the short, medium and long term is recognized. and long term, from the improvement of the relationship between the productive activity and the sustainability of the territorial capitals, mainly the natural one.

Keywords : Sustainability; Territorial Sustainability; Business Activity; Environmental Management; Territorial Capital.

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