Table 2 Identified challenges to performing SIA

1

Determination of what social impacts to consider

[27,28,29]

2

Uncertainty with indicator selection, normalization, aggregation, and weighting

[16, 30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38]

3

Determination of whether a functional unit should be used

[3, 37,38,39,40,41]

4

Determination of minimum criteria to be satisfied during data collection efforts

[8, 36, 42]

5

Allocation of social impacts into different categories

[36, 42,43,44]

6

Connection of social impacts with products rather than with company conduct

[45, 46]

7

Definition of “social well-being” used in the analysis

[16, 17, 40, 47,48,49]

8

Selection of a preferred method to perform the social impact assessments

[37, 45, 50,51,52]

9

Definition of the system boundaries

[18, 28, 39, 43, 53, 54]

10

Selection of global or location-specific data

[42, 45, 55, 56]

11

Selection of scoring scales to report the results

[8, 14, 46, 55, 57,58,59]

12

Selection of stakeholders relevant to the study

[42, 43, 57, 60]