Transition toward Sustainable Development in Enterprises

Dear Colleagues,

Achieving sustainability in a firm requires a holistic, integrative, and complete view, spanning not just the product and the manufacturing processes, but also the entire value chains, including the manufacturing systems across multiple product life-cycles. This requires improved models, metrics for sustainability performance evaluation, and optimization techniques at the product, process, and system levels. In the transitional period towards sustainability systems, organizations are practicing sustainability in their value chains as separate functions. The firms perform sustainability modeling and implement specific environmental or social management systems without integrating them with the integrated management system, core business processes, and tools. Current information systems are not designed to capture the sustainability-related data and are not intended to support the management of data of all the sustainability dimensions. Many pieces of these data could be qualitative and difficult to process and analyze. Thus, Sustainable Enterprise Resource Planning (S-ERP) systems are necessary to solve the segregation and digitization problems.

The research in S-ERP is still in its early stages. There are very few studies that explore the current status, benefits, issues, challenges, and implementation process of the system. Therefore, in order to understand the important role of S-ERP systems in the firms, in this Special Issue we are interested in providing state‐of‐the‐art literature by progressing S-ERP research and stimulating innovation in the implementation of the firm's systems, but are not limited to:

• Sustainable Enterprise Resource Planning (Sustainable Enterprise Systems);
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management (S-SCM);
• Sustainable Customer Relationship Management (S-CRM);
• Sustainable Operation Management;
• Sustainable Marketing Management;
• Sustainable Human Resource Management (S-HRM);
• Sustainable Accounting and Finance;
• Sustainable Business Models;
• Sustainable Project Management;
• Sustainable Integrated Information Systems;
• Sustainable Management Information Systems;
• Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Development;
• Internet of Things and Sustainable Development.

Dr. Abdoulmohammad Gholamzadeh Chofreh
Dr. Feybi Ariani Goni
Dr. Abbas Mardani
Dr. Syuhaida Ismail
Guest Editors

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