Análise da Sustentabilidade Empresarial: Um Estudo Envolvendo uma Indústria Mineradora

Abstract

The corporate sustainability currently is part in the agenda of environmental, economic and social debates. In this sense, the present study aimed to analyze the sustainability from a measurement model that takes as reference the theoretical perspective of the Triple Bottom Line (3BL). The model adopted for this research was the Corporate Sustainability Grid (CGS). The object of study it is an exploration of corporate sustainability in a Brazilian mining company from a measurement model of sustainable performance. We investigated the practices adopted by the company in order to measure sustainability in environmental, economic and social dimensions. A questionnaire consisting of 43 questions sustainability indicators, 16 environmental, 14 economic and 13 social, was used for data collection. The mining showed satisfactory performance with respect to sustainability dimensions studied, and illustrated as a case of good economic, environmental and social performance. Among the outstanding shares of the mining company are: political reforestation, land reclamation, use of clean technologies, satisfactory interaction with society, and political benefits of recovering staff, clean and investment strategies for reconciling environmental responsibility and good economic performance. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]