Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS) - Sustainability Reporting Tools for SMEs

Abstract

In recent years, companies have begun to concentrate on the topic of environment sustainability. They have tried different methods and software in order to reduce their businesses’ effect on the environment, like pollution and unsustainable use of natural resources. These measures contribute to the protection of the integrity of ecosystems and human health, ensuring the sustainable use of natural resources, and guaranteeing fair competition. This paper is a literature review focusing on meanings rather than facts, so it uses the deductive research method which depends mainly on the qualitative data analysis, and it is closer to the positivism research philosophy. Within the topic environmental management information system (EMIS), we will start this paper with a theoretical part highlighting the most used terms and concepts, and then we will analyse several sustainability reporting tools, providing a comparison among four different tools against the small to medium sized companies’ requirements.