Enterprise Modelling Requirements for a Sustainability Multi Level Assessment

Pressure of governments, local communities and customers is urging organizations to consider sustainability in their development process. Sustainability should not be a separate concept from enterprise models. Moreover economic, environmental and social dimensions should be assessed at different organization levels namely product, process and supply chain. In this paper, sustainability concepts are presented, and then an investigation on enterprise modeling approaches is carried. The goal is to analyze the adequacy of these approaches with sustainability evaluation to highlight the need for an appropriate enterprise modeling approach that fits with sustainability assessment requirements.

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