Track: Sustainability in Supply Chain, Enterprise Operations and Strategies including Food Supply Chain

Abstract

Research conducted since the 1990s shows that the high failure and retention rates of small and medium-sized enterprises are due to administrative deficiencies and low technological adoption. Therefore, a possible solution to both low sustainability and low productivity may be the implementation of a sustainability management model that improves these indicators.

Sustainability and productivity are two terms that have taken great importance when involving the concept of organization, this concept has been becoming a major factor for companies because it involves each and every one of the different types of companies and business ideas that Colombia has, since sustainability is strongly related to entrepreneurship and globalization in order to create economic, environmental and social value in the present and future, according to this, the research aims to determine the level of productivity after the implementation of the Sustainability Management Model. The detailed review to identify its applicability in the SMEs, to define categories of analysis, the profiles of the organizations and to carry out the diagnosis of the organizational management, are the aspects to consider in this project.