Resumo

Companies are seeking sustainability as a value and it grows every day. In the context of secondary sector companies, the consequence of that is a need to evaluate how much the investment in sustainability brings a better financial performance. In addition, companies have also invested in projects, on the grounds that the need for innovation and new technologies.

What is the project management maturity effect in the relation between sustainability level and organization performance?

This study is based on three constructs: i) Sustainability based on the Elkington study (1998) and the Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) from São Paulo Stock Exchange - BM & FBOVESPA; ii) Project Management Maturity based on PMMM's levels defined by Kerzner (2001) and; iii) Organizational performance based on Reckziegel et al. (2016).

A quantitative approach and statistical analysis were used to test the two hypotheses as presented below. The data and the objective of the research seek to evaluate the links between the level of sustainability and the performance of the organization. ● H1. There is a relation between the sustainability level and the organization performance. ● H2. The project management maturity moderates positively the relation between the sustainability level and the organization performance.

In this study, four items of relationship were considered to execute the chi-square test, in which it was noticed the relationship between: i) sustainability and project management maturity, p-value < 0,05, i.e., there is a correlation between the variables; ii) sustainability and organization performance, sustainability and organization performance and, statistic variable and organization performance, p-value > 0,05, i.e., there is not a correlation between them.

These results are supported by other studies, such as those on the link between sustainability level and the organization performance (Castro, 2017; Cristófalo et al., 2016; Lima Crisóstomo et al., 2011). However, this study showed a significant statistical relation between the sustainability level and project management maturity, corroborating with the research developed by Silvius and Schipper (2015).

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