Eager to Develop Sustainable Business Ideas? Assessment through a New Business Plan (BP4S Model)

Paulo Lopes Henriques, Pedro Verga Matos and Helena Mateus Jerónimo
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Paulo Lopes Henriques: Advance/CSG, ISEG School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, 1200-781 Lisbon, Portugal
Pedro Verga Matos: Advance/CSG, ISEG School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, 1200-781 Lisbon, Portugal
Helena Mateus Jerónimo: Advance/CSG, ISEG School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, 1200-781 Lisbon, Portugal

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: This article presents the BP4S (Business Plan for Sustainability), which builds on the literature about business models, as an innovation that considers sustainability as a characteristic of a business. Sustainability becomes the objective of business instead of being an attribute of business. This article also proposes the Global Sustainability Project Index (GSPI) as a metric to measure the effect of a business venture on sustainability to help with the decision-making on the viability of a project in supporting the pillars of sustainability. Additionally, a collection of indicators for the 3Ps of sustainability (planet, people, and profit) is also an asset of this article.

Keywords: business plan; sustainable business; global sustainability project index; triple bottom line; BP4S (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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