“…Talking about sustainability implies associating a range of issues related to the preservation of the environment (Hart, 1980), as a form of concern for social ecology (Lélé, 1988;Hart, 2005), with its strategic use by companies (Bansal, 2002), as a way of holding a competitive advantage (Dutra, 2008), designing flexible and intelligent companies in relation to their competitors due to the rate of cooperation, coordination and innovation between them (Boxall, 1996;Silveira & Miranda, 2011), as a new way of managing people (Liebowitz, 2010;Parente & Fischer, 2014), as a way for states to pour their policies into society (Porter & Van Der Linde, 1995), as a form of spatial and cultural demonstration (Sachs, 2002), as a purpose of favouring companies through their exercise (Wagner, 2010), as an emphasis on the business contribution to sustainable development (Hahn, Figge, Liesen & Barkemeyer, 2010), as a way of reacting to global pressures, changes in the community, technology, climate, politics, the financial world and demographic variations (Ulrich, 2011) and as a source of inspiration for scientific research in a wide range of areas such as strategy and organisations, operations and logistics management, science management and innovation technology (Marques, Kniess, Meira & Ruiz, 2017).…”