Sustainable ESG: Operations in the Road Freight Transport

EasyChair Preprint 15414

Abstract

The term ESG has been occupying a prominent role in corporate strategic plans, aiming to go beyond setting social-environmental goals, and increase the organization’s efficiency, profitability gain, and market positioning. Thus, this article aims to propose the application of a framework based on the approach of implementing practices related to environmental, social, and governance issues (ESG) in a medium-sized road transport company. The current article seeks to demonstrate the applicability of sustainable ESG operations through an interventionist approach, creating a model of ESG indicators – Environmental, Social, and Governance. To achieve this objective, the company’s ESG materiality is identified, allowing for the evaluation of actions and implementations in the organizational process. For the creation of the ESG indicators model, a qualitative method of action research (interventionist) will be used, as it seeks to solve organizational problems through the application of ESG indicators in the company. A framework will be applied for modeling ESG materiality, granting a definition aligned with the company’s strategic goals, and developing its ESG models. With that being said, this article, besides the academic contribution to the literature that abords the thematic, corroborates the replication of an indicator framework to the transport sector scenario, specifically a freight carrier, in the three ESG dimensions: environmental, social, and governance. The present framework aims to identify the ESG materiality of a company under study and create indicators capable of contributing to both management and decision-making processes, by obtaining materiality and deriving the ESG indicators.

Keyphrases: ESG Environmental Social and Governance Sustainability, Materiality matrix Framework, transport sector

@booklet{EasyChair:15414,
  author    = {Vanessa Quadros and Edson Pinheiro and Fernando José Avancini Schenatto and Alcenir Negri},
  title     = {Sustainable ESG: Operations in the Road Freight Transport},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 15414},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2024}}