Business sustainability frameworks a survey

Abstract

This paper aims to formulate a number of research questions based on a literature survey. A critical review of literature has been undertaken to evaluate the existing business sustainability frameworks. Business Sustainability frameworks from a number of domains such as manufacturing, e-learning, agriculture, bioenergy and Information technology has been reviewed. The knowledge gap in this space has been clearly outlined and a number of research questions were derived from this discussion. Based upon this review a framework will be proposed using the inputs from the existing literature. The proposed framework will be validated by interviewing domain experts. Once validated the framework would be applied to two different ICT businesses either from Australia or overseas. This will be a case study based research where the two ICT companies will be assessed using the proposed framework and the results from this case study will be used to draw generalized conclusions related to the sustainability of ICT businesses.