Decisional logic and its implications for sustainability in organizations

Abstract The study and the comprehension of the main logic that guides the decision-making process incites the discussion about the existence or not of coherence in organizational actions. Based on this information, we propose that it will be possible to analyze whether organizational actions and decisions towards sustainable development consider environmental, social and economic factors simultaneously. This will make possible to anticipate, translate and revise their short, medium or long-term consequences in view of decision-making logic choices. Considering this context, this article was developed with the aim of broadening the debate and the understanding of how the decision-making logic adopted by organizational managers end up determining the actions that aim at corporate sustainability. Initially, this article presents and elaborates reflections on approaches and decision-making logic that may be subsidizing decisions about sustainability in organizations. From this, it presents a synthesis of a theoretical framework that proposes the combination between approaches and decision-making perspectives regarding sustainability as well as the implications of each combination suggested for management in organizations. From the suggested framework, we analyze and reflect on how decision-making logic ultimately determines positive or negative results for those organizations that declare themselves sustainable.