Extensive literature review to investigate the dimensions of business sustainability

The attainment of business and production targets without sacrificing future generation needs is a critical and highly debated research area at present time. Numerous studies were conducted on sustainability under different perspectives. This study is focused towards a critical overview of past and present works on sustainability to define the possible future trends in this field. Le extensive literature review allowed to find out the potential research gaps in business sustainability, highlighting some potential grey areas less explored or even not studied yet. Based on this critical review, the key drivers of sustainability have been sorted out and structured trough a new concept of sustainability wheel. This work, through a structured literature analysis, is able to propose a new way to link the sustainability drivers, as well as some potential dimensions and factors which can affect sustainability.