Conceptual Modeling for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Systematic Literature Review

Otília de Sousa Santos, Patrício de Alencar Silva*, Faiza Allah Bukhsh, Paulo Gabriel Gadelha Queiroz

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Abstract

Enterprises have been challenged to adopt practices of sustainability to benefit shareholders and society with goods standing much beyond monetary profit or required by law. In combination with environmental and economic concerns, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an option to leverage businesses with good reputation and to attract sustainability-aware market segments. In line with such a demand, this paper presents a systematic literature review of conceptual modeling studies referring explicitly to certifications, laws or norms of CSR. The more specific research goal of this work is to discover ontologies for representing CSR best practices, design patterns or policies. In total, 921 peer-reviewed papers were analyzed, from which only 17 were considered relevant for data extraction. The main result of this work is the identification of a research gap in explicit knowledge representation of CSR practices for Information Systems design, which ought to be filled to complement the (dominant) economic perspective on sustainability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEconomics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services - 16th International Conference, GECON 2019, Proceedings
EditorsKarim Djemame, Jörn Altmann, José Ángel Bañares, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Maurizio Naldi
PublisherSpringer
Pages218-227
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030360269
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event16th International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2019 - Leeds, United Kingdom
Duration: 17 Sept 201919 Sept 2019
Conference number: 16

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11819 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2019
Abbreviated titleGECON 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLeeds
Period17/09/1919/09/19

Keywords

  • Conceptual modeling
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Ontology
  • Sustainability

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