Sustainability in work practices

Lucia Pascarella; Peter Bednar

Sustainability in work practices

Lucia Pascarella
, Peter Bednar

Lund University

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Abstract

Sustainability becomes a crucial focus for companies as the ability to support future development and long-term business robustness inherently depends on it. The paper aims to report on examples of weaknesses in business support for sustainable development practices uncovered in empirical studies and discuss possible needed changes in work practices. Previous research focused on the investigation of sociotechnical sustainability in real-world employees' work practices in SMEs. Overall, employees' work practices seem to be lacking when it comes to integration with sustainability practices, and this situation does not support a real, sustainable future for the enterprise. Hence management of sustainability need to be directed on collaboration emphasizing employees' “know-how” and needs in practice, integrating sociotechnical systemic sustainability approach.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development (STPIS 2020)
Editors	Peter Bednar, Alexander Nolte, Mikko Rajanen, Helena Vallo Hult, Anna Sigridur Islind, Federico Pigni
Publisher	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Pages	133-139
Number of pages	7
Volume	2789
Publication status	Published - 28 Dec 2020
Event	6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development - Online, Grenoble, France Duration: 8 Jun 2020 → 9 Jun 2020 Conference number: 6 https://stpis2020.cs.ut.ee/

Publication series

Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	CEUR-WS
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

Workshop

Workshop	6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development
Abbreviated title	STPIS'20
Country/Territory	France
City	Grenoble
Period	8/06/20 → 9/06/20
Internet address	https://stpis2020.cs.ut.ee/

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

information systems sustainability
sociotechnical approach
sustainability
sustainable work practice
systemic sustainability
work practice analysis

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Pascarella, L., & Bednar, P. (2020). Sustainability in work practices. In P. Bednar, A. Nolte, M. Rajanen, H. Vallo Hult, A. Sigridur Islind, & F. Pigni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development (STPIS 2020) (Vol. 2789, pp. 133-139). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2789/paper18.pdf

Pascarella, Lucia ; Bednar, Peter. / Sustainability in work practices. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development (STPIS 2020). editor / Peter Bednar ; Alexander Nolte ; Mikko Rajanen ; Helena Vallo Hult ; Anna Sigridur Islind ; Federico Pigni. Vol. 2789 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2020. pp. 133-139 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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Pascarella, L & Bednar, P 2020, Sustainability in work practices. in P Bednar, A Nolte, M Rajanen, H Vallo Hult, A Sigridur Islind & F Pigni (eds), Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development (STPIS 2020). vol. 2789, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 133-139, 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development , Grenoble, France, 8/06/20. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2789/paper18.pdf>

Sustainability in work practices. / Pascarella, Lucia; Bednar, Peter.
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development (STPIS 2020). ed. / Peter Bednar; Alexander Nolte; Mikko Rajanen; Helena Vallo Hult; Anna Sigridur Islind; Federico Pigni. Vol. 2789 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2020. p. 133-139 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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