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Article

Sustainable Enterprise Excellence: Attribute-Based Assessment Protocol

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Department of Statistics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus 54000, Pakistan
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Business Developments & Technology Department, Aarhus University, 1, 8000 Herning, Denmark
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Management Department, College of Business & Entrepreneurship, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS 67601, USA
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Technology & Innovation Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Southern Denmark, 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark
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Management Department, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, 1, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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Arriyadh Community College, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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KSA Workers University, Cairo 11311, Egypt
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College of Business Administration, King Saud University, Muzahimiyah 11451, Saudi Arabia
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Sustainability 2018, 10(11), 4097; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114097
Submission received: 4 October 2018 / Revised: 24 October 2018 / Accepted: 31 October 2018 / Published: 8 November 2018
(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

Abstract

This paper is intended to design and provide a reliable and valid measurement instrument to aid organizations that wish to self-assess their performance and positioning relative to sustainable enterprise excellence. Recent research trends in performance excellence, quality management, and organizational sustainability have been directed towards integrated management systems (IMS). Sustainable Enterprise Excellence (SEE) is among these integrated management systems. SEE is undergoing ongoing development and its measurement scale is rudimentary, hence it lacks the more sophisticated sorts of measurement scales often used for organizational self-assessment purposes. A scientific approach is used herein to devise a more comprehensive SEE-oriented organizational assessment against six proposed performance results-oriented domains or constructs: governance and strategy, process implementation, sustainability performance, financial performance, innovation performance, and human capital performance. Each organizational performance construct is to be measured by ten attributes-based items. Maturity scale ratings that range from 0 to 10 reflect organizational performance relative to the associated item and the sum of item ratings across a construct reflects performance within the specific domain, the summation of the six construct scores then yields a measure of the overall organizational performance with respect to SEE. The assessment areas against which organization performance compares poorly suggest opportunities for improvement of associated business processes, the achievement of which will contribute to a sustainable future.
Keywords: business excellence; sustainability; governance; process orientation; innovation; scale development; human capital; capacity building business excellence; sustainability; governance; process orientation; innovation; scale development; human capital; capacity building

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Hussain, T.; Edgeman, R.; Eskildsen, J.; Shoukry, A.M.; Gani, S. Sustainable Enterprise Excellence: Attribute-Based Assessment Protocol. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4097. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114097

AMA Style

Hussain T, Edgeman R, Eskildsen J, Shoukry AM, Gani S. Sustainable Enterprise Excellence: Attribute-Based Assessment Protocol. Sustainability. 2018; 10(11):4097. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114097

Chicago/Turabian Style

Hussain, Tajammal, Rick Edgeman, Jacob Eskildsen, Alaa Mohamed Shoukry, and Showkat Gani. 2018. "Sustainable Enterprise Excellence: Attribute-Based Assessment Protocol" Sustainability 10, no. 11: 4097. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114097

APA Style

Hussain, T., Edgeman, R., Eskildsen, J., Shoukry, A. M., & Gani, S. (2018). Sustainable Enterprise Excellence: Attribute-Based Assessment Protocol. Sustainability, 10(11), 4097. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114097

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