Literature review on MCS and SM
| Identified drivers for sustainability strategies, management and control mechanisms | Authors | Amount of studies | |
| Stakeholder and regulatory pressure | Pondeville et al., 2013; Arjaliès and Mundy, 2013; Aziz et al., 2015; Maas et al., 2016; Lueg and Radlach, 2016; Ditillo and Lisi, 2016; Guenther et al., 2016; George et al., 2016; Battaglia et al., 2016; Caputo et al., 2017; Wijethilake et al., 2017; Di Giacomo et al., 2017 | 12 | |
| Increasing reputation and legitimacy | Caputo et al., 2017; Arjaliès and Mundy, 2013; Di Giacomo et al., 2017; Ditillo and Lisi, 2016; Crutzen et al., 2017 | 4 | |
| Organizational change, innovation and improved performance | Lueg and Radlach, 2016; Ditillo and Lisi, 2016; Maas et al., 2016; Arjaliès and Mundy, 2013; Wijethilake et al., 2018 | 5 | |
| Shared sustainability values between board and top-management | Arjaliès and Mundy, 2013; Hosoda and Suzuki, 2015; Ditillo and Lisi, 2016; Maas et al., 2016; Battaglia et al., 2016; Caputo et al., 2017 | 6 | |
| Identified overall clusters | Frameworks and theories | Authors | Amount of studies |
| Prior literature reviews | “MCS as a package” (Malmi and Brown, 2008), SBSC architecture, resource-based view, agency theory, stakeholder theory, legitimacy theory, contingency theory | Ditillo and Lisi, 2014; Aziz et al., 2015; Lueg and Radlach, 2016; Hansen and Schaltegger, 2016 | 4 |
| Conceptual studies of environmental MCS (EMCS) and sustainability MCS (SMCS) | MCS as a package (Malmi and Brown, 2008), levers of control (Simons, 1990, 1995), configuration approach, stakeholder theory | Gond et al., 2012; Guenther et al., 2016; Garcia et al., 2016 | 3 |
| Empirical studies of EMCS | Levers of control (Simons, 1995), resource-based view, agency theory, contingency theory, stakeholder theory | Pondeville et al., 2013; Lisi, 2015; Sundin and Brown, 2017; Wijethilake, 2017; Di Giacomo et al., 2017; Wijethilake et al., 2018 | 6 |
| Studies addressing the implementation, integration and interaction of SMCS | “MCS as a package” (Malmi and Brown, 2008), levers of control (Simons, 1990, 1995), neo-institutionalism | Arjaliès and Mundy, 2013; Kerr et al., 2015; Maas et al., 2016; Battaglia et al., 2016; De Villiers et al., 2016; George et al., 2016; Caputo et al., 2017; Crutzen et al., 2017; Wijethilake et al., 2017 | 7 |
| Studies focus on SMCS and management implications | Total quality management, resource-based view, stakeholder theory, actor-network theory, leadership theory | Cintra and Carter, 2012; Doeleman et al., 2012; Jollands et al., 2015; Hosoda and Suzuki, 2015; Ditillo and Lisi, 2016; Herremans and Nazari, 2016 | 6 |
| Studies focusing on SMCS and sustainability accounting | Agency theory, stakeholder theory, contingency theory | Dkhili and Noubbigh, 2013; Dutta et al., 2016 | 2 |
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| Identified overall clusters | Frameworks and theories | Authors | Amount of studies |
| Prior literature reviews | “MCS as a package” ( | 4 | |
| Conceptual studies of environmental MCS (EMCS) and sustainability MCS (SMCS) | MCS as a package ( | 3 | |
| Empirical studies of EMCS | Levers of control ( | 6 | |
| Studies addressing the implementation, integration and interaction of SMCS | “MCS as a package” ( | 7 | |
| Studies focus on SMCS and management implications | Total quality management, resource-based view, stakeholder theory, actor-network theory, leadership theory | 6 | |
| Studies focusing on SMCS and sustainability accounting | Agency theory, stakeholder theory, contingency theory | 2 | |
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