Sustainable Business: An Annotated Bibliography on Engineering Management Practices for Achieving Sustainability

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Introduction
Sustainability is one of the prime factors be looked after in the recent time due to the
reason that maintaining the same standard of living with the scarce resources is getting difficult
with that. In this case, initiation of the concept of the sustainability is the most effective in
mitigating challenge. In addition, this should also be noted that engineering management is the
stream, which should be in the front position to initiate the sustainable practices due to the fact
that engineering management can help in effective planning mechanism of the management
along with the problem solving abilities of engineering. There are number of effective
sustainable engineering management practices that can be initiated by the engineering managers
to achieve sustainability. This is important for them due to the reason that achieving
sustainability will ensure that managers will have more effectiveness in the long term. However,
on the other hand, it should be also be noted that different authors have given different views
regarding the practices to be initiated by the engineering managers in achieving the business
sustainability. This report will discuss about the different views being given by the authors
regarding the practices to be followed by the engineering managers. The annotated bibliography
will be done based on different journal articles and conclusion will be drawn accordingly.
Chofreh, A., Goni, F. and Klemeš, J. (2018). Sustainable enterprise resource planning
systems implementation: A framework development. Journal of Cleaner Production, 198,
pp.1345-1354.
According to Cofreh, Goni and Klemes (2018), one of the major responsibilities of the
engineering managers is implementing sustainable enterprise resource planning system. This is
due to the reason that in the current business scenario, enterprise resource planning is an integral

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part of the contemporary business organizations. Majority of the contemporary business
organizations are having larger poor smaller scale of enterprise resource planning. Thus,
according to the authors, if sustainability can be maintained in designing the enterprise resource
planning then it will have the larger effectiveness. In this selected journal, the authors have stated
about the ineffectiveness of the previous studies in researching about the sustainable enterprise
resource planning. This is due to the reason that previous researches are only focused on the
empirical analysis. In this journal, the authors have discussed about the master plan for the
implementation of the sustainable enterprise resource planning system in place. This master plan
can help the engineering managers in initiating the sustainable enterprise resource planning in
the workplace.
There are number of organizations already initiated sustainable enterprise resource
planning system, which is helping in initiating the holistic process of sustainability in the
process. It should be noted that initiation the sustainable practices in the enterprise resource
planning will help the business organizations in covering the major organizational sections and
process. Thus, it can be concluded that initiating the sustainable enterprise resource planning
process can be a major practice for the engineering managers in achieving the sustainability.
Moreover, it can also be concluded that this article can help the engineering managers in
implementing the process in the real world situation.
Gusmão Caiado, R., Leal Filho, W., Quelhas, O., Luiz de Mattos Nascimento, D. and Ávila,
L. (2018). A literaturebased review on potentials and constraints in the implementation of
the sustainable development goals. Journal of Cleaner Production, 198, pp.1276-1288.