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The triple bottom line (TBL) framework, developed by Elkington (1994) is one of the most important performance metrics for operations managers because it goes “beyond the traditional measures of profits, return on investment, and shareholder value to include environmental and social dimensions” (Slaper, Hall, 2011, p. 4). By including environmental and social dimensions, the TBL metric allows operations managers to better understand how a company is performing across measures that include variables not typically considered by financial analysts but that yet have an impact on a company’s value. Indeed, with the rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR), firms have begun to see how a business’s footprint on a community in social and environmental terms also helps to diminish or strengthen the company’s value over time (Marquis, Lee, 2013).
When the company’s CSR is evident and impactful, the company’s performance can viewed in a more favorable light: a strong connection to the community and to causes that the community advocates can translate into valuable good will, consumer loyalty, and brand awareness. The TBL relates to the Customer Satisfaction Score (CSS)—another key metric in evaluating a business’s performance. Since a business is there to serve the needs of the consumer/client, rating the CSS can be pivotal in evaluating...
This is not to say that the TBL does not include financial measurements—not at all; in fact, the TBL can be measured by the three P’s—people, planet and profits.
While profits are measured in dollars and determined by factors such as cash flow, gross margins, income, balance sheets, and equity fluctuations, social and environmental capital are measured in different ways—for instance, by assessing the firm’s CSR policy. Various economic measures, social measures and environmental measures exist to support a TBL valuation: economic measures include establishment churn, establishment size, job growth, revenue by sector; social measures include the unemployment rate, relative poverty, median household income, violent crimes per capita, etc.; environmental measures include fossil fuel consumption, waste management, changes in land use and land cover, and so on (Slaper, Hall, 2011).
The data that would be used to support the profit side of the measurements would include a company’s finances—its balance sheets, earnings, forecasted earnings, credit risk (such as secured and unsecured lines of credit, assets, refinanced debt, revolving loans, covenants and so on) (Moslyn, 2010). These metrics support the overall financial performance of the organization by providing access to the variables…
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