Research Publications

A Strategic Approach to Social Sustainability -
Part 1: Exploring the Social System

This link takes you to author manuscript of the peer-reviewed and published version of this article, an earlier version of which is also found in the dissertation. The journal version can be found here

The missing pillar: exploring social sustainability in product development

This link takes you to the full licentiate dissertation, including multiple articles, by Patricia Lagun Mesquita. Her focus for the last several years has been to explore to social sustainability dimension in product development.

A typology of approaches to social sustainability integration in product development organizations

Patricia Lagun Mesquita and Merlina Missimer

A Strategic Approach to Social Sustainability -
Part 2: A Principle-based Definition

This link takes you to author manuscript of the peer-reviewed and published version of this article, an earlier version of which is also found in the dissertation. The journal version can be found here

Using social sustainability principles to analyse activities of the extraction lifecycle phase: Learnings from designing support for concept selection

Rachael Gould, Merlina Missimer and Patricia Lagun Mesquita

Supporting engineering students in analyzing social sustainability of a product: lessons learned

Patricia Lagun Mesquita and Merlina Missimer

Full Dissertation

This link takes you to the full PhD dissertation on this topic published at Blekinge Institute of Technology. This gives the full overview of the project including the baseline assessment of social sustainability (within the FSSD) before the start of the project, the newly proposed approach and preliminary evaluations of it.

Social Sustainability Work in Product Development Organizations: An Empirical Study of Three Sweden-Based Companies

Patricia Lagun Mesquita and Merlina Missimer