Towards Big Data-based Sustainable Business Models and Sustainable Supply Chain

Abstract

Nowadays, in a hotly competitive environment, enterprises that do not integrate sustainability metrics into their operations, decision-making process, or business model (BM) cannot be considered successful sustainable businesses. Thus, in order to achieve their economic, environmental, and social sustainability, enterprises must integrate their supply chain network (SCN) and their indirect stakeholders (i.e., social and environmental) into their sustainable business models (SBMs). As an emergent technology, Big Data (BD) offers enterprises the ability to achieve sustainable development goals. To this end, in this paper, we present an overview of how enterprises are planning to integrate sustainability into their BMs and expand it to cover the involved stakeholders in their business processes. In addition, we give some benefits of leveraging BD in enterprises’ SBMs refereed to us BD-based SBMs.