Sustainable development and competitiveness: A study focused on the doctrinal environmental aspect
Keywords:
Environmental Management, Sustainable Development, Sustainability, CompetitivenessAbstract
The goal of this paper is to describe the evolution of environmental thinking, demonstrating the laws, regulations and the specific norms and addressing issues directly related to the benefits that organizations can get. The research methodology used for the development of this work consisted of a systematic review of the literature (SMR) based on scientific articles published before 2017 and available in renowned databases. This paper result is an analysis of the state-of-the-art in the research field on the relationship between sustainable management and competitiveness. The research was based on three keywords: “Management, Sustainability and Competitiveness”, limiting the investigation. The relevance of this study is to show the relationship between competitive advantage and sustainability within a social and economic scenario.