Management Model for the Development of Software Applied to Business Sustainability in the Context of Global Climate Changes

Abstract

This article introduces a social and environmental management model based on the results of an empirical study that was conducted using the grounded theory method. It outlines a social and environmental mapping of the different economic segments of the Brazilian business universe to support decisions that are inherent to the sustainable management of the supply chain of organizations in terms of clean development mechanisms. It is in this context that the concept is included for the architecture of software and a model of social and environmental balance to track the demands for carbon credit required by an organization in the scenario of its business and that of the national economy.Keywords: software for tracking social and environmental liability; architecture of sustainability data; clean development mechanism (CDM); Certified Emission Reductions (CER); social accountability balance.