Abstract

Purpose: To propose a sustainable performance measurement system for the Chilean wine industry's supply chain. The new system is based on industry’s current performance measurement systems and Elkington's sustainability approach (1997), allowing wine companies to manage the business in two dimensions: 1) Sustainability, which will measure how sustainable is the business and 2) Spatial dimension, which focuses on measuring the performance of the actors that comprise the industry's supply chain. Design/methodology/approach: In order to attain the objective before raised, a research initiative is to be developed on industry sustainability and inter-organizational performance measurement systems, along with a diagnosis of the Chilean wine industry. The work is supported by a series of in-depth interviews to executives from 50 of the main Chilean wineries. Findings: On the basis of the diagnosis made of the current state of Chile's wine industry, the study confirms that the conditions for a future implementation are given.