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Introduction
Sustainability indicators provide information for managers to make decisions. Management instrument performance indicators are composed of one or more indicator groups that allow continuous assessment of the position and evolution of a particular activity of a company (King 2016).
Sustainability indicators are not just traditional performance metrics, they are also important to supporting city development.
During the last few decades, corporations have become more active in publishing sustainability reports (Hahn and Kühnen 2013; Montecchia et al. 2016; Halkos and Skouloudis 2016). Corporations benefit from those publications by improving their public image and their relationships with stakeholders (Kolk 2008; Hahn and Kühnen 2013; Bocquet et al. 2013). Sustainability is thus considered a key factor within the corporations’ performance (Reilly and Hynan 2014; Hahn and Kühnen 2013).
In order to characterize the scope of sustainability,...
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Mazon, G., Berchin, I.I., Soares, T.C., de Andrade Guerra, J.B.S.O. (2019). Importance of Sustainability Indicators. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63951-2_526-1
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