Companies on the scale: Comparing and benchmarking the sustainability performance of businesses

corporate environmental reporting triple bottom line (TBL) ecological footprint (EF) input-output analysis supply chain management industrial ecology Summary Determining the sustainability performance of a company ought to fulfill certain requirements. It has to take into account the direct impacts from on-site processes as well as indirect impacts embodied in the supply chains of a company. This life-cycle thinking is the common theme of popular footprint analyses, such as carbon, ecological, or water footprinting. All these indicators can be incorporated into one common and consistent accounting and reporting scheme based on economic input-output analysis extended with data from all three dimensions of sustainability. We introduce such a triple bottom line accounting framework and software tool and apply it in a case study of a small company in the UK. Results include absolute impacts and relative intensities o