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Integrating more sustainability into business processes is becoming increasingly important for companies. At the same time, they aim to collect and analyze large amounts of data (big data) to improve these processes. The potentials of big data for corporate environmental protection are hardly dealt with in the scientific literature. The main contribution of this paper is to identify potential big data use cases for corporate environmental management by using the example of the German automotive industry. For this purpose, expert interviews were conducted with corporate environmental managers which were evaluated by using a qualitative content analysis. In order to balance this environmental perspective and enhance it with data analytical expertise, these use cases were assessed by data analytics experts through a mixed method approach, in a subsequent process. The presentation of the identified five use cases and their critical reflection through data analytics experts are the key results of this paper.
Die Leitprinzipien für Wirtschaft und Menschrechte der Vereinten Nationen empfehlen zur Umsetzung der menschenrechtlichen Unternehmensverantwortung einen Managementansatz, nach welchem der Prozess der menschenrechtlichen Sorgfalt in unternehmerische Risikomanagementsysteme eingebunden werden kann. Wird hierfür ein unternehmensweiter Risikomanagementansatz (ERM) genutzt, könnten Synergiepotenziale aufgrund einer ähnlichen Prozessstruktur realisiert werden – so die Hoffnung.
Angesichts der vorherrschenden Finanzausrichtung des Risikomanagements stehen sich die Menschenrechts- und Risikomanagementanforderungen jedoch auch konfliktär gegenüber. Vor diesem Hintergrund gilt es zu prüfen, ob eine einfache Integration von Menschenrechtsrisiken in das unternehmensweite Risikomanagement ausreichend ist oder ob es ggf. sogar zu einer Verletzung der menschenrechtlichen Sorgfaltspflicht führen könnte. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden in diesem Beitrag mögliche Konflikte zwischen der menschenrechtlichen Sorgfaltspflicht und dem unternehmensweiten Risikomanagement herausgestellt und aufgezeigt, wie dem Konfliktpotenzial auf Unternehmensebene mit selbstregulativen Maßnahmen begegnet werden könnte.
This publication explores how system innovations with municipalities as partners can contribute to sustainability transformation. The findings are based on a qualitative case study conducted from November 2021 to November 2023. Overall, three questions were pursued: Firstly, how could the system innovation in Eberswalde develop through existing partnerships? Secondly, which everyday practices of municipalities influenced the innovation development process? And thirdly, which characteristics and attributes of the organizations and individuals involved were important for the development of the system innovation? The here presented development of the system innovation is a joint effort. All partners made relevant contributions. As the innovation affects provision of public services, the municipalities, which are responsible for those in Germany, played a special role: they used their influence and applied their leeway, particularly in decisive regulatory procedures, to contribute to the development of the innovation. This was possible, among other things, because the innovation was linked to key strategy papers in the examined municipalities. The results show different everyday practices of municipalities are linked to the development of system innovation, such as (1) development of strategies, (2) alignment of mandatory tasks with strategies, (3) formal and informal communication, (4) management of expert committees, (5) decision-making, (6) involvement of various stakeholders and (7) leadership of employees. The innovation development process benefited from a wide variety of characteristics and attributes of the participants. The decisive factor was not that one individual or organization should hold as many as possible, but that they should be available and accessible as widely as possible within the cooperation network.