TY - JOUR

T1 - Multinational Enterprise Strategies for Addressing Sustainability

T2 - the Need for Consolidation

AU - Burritt, Roger Leonard

AU - Christ, Katherine Leanne

AU - Rammal, Hussain Gulzar

AU - Schaltegger, Stefan

PY - 2020/6/1

Y1 - 2020/6/1

N2 - This paper examines the growing number of publications on multinational enterprise management of sustainability issues. Based on an integrative literature review and thematic analysis, the paper analyses and synthesises the current state of knowledge about main issues arising. Key issues identified include the following: choice of sustainability strategies; management of the views of headquarters towards sustainability; local cultural sustainability perspectives in developed and developing host countries; MNEs with home in developing/emerging countries; and resource availability for implementing sustainability initiatives. Findings indicate that although the literature is tending towards growing acceptance about sustainability and its challenges most researchers have focused on corporate social responsibility and investigate their own niche problem, industry, and country, using their own chosen theory and do not consider the need for consolidation and integration of social, environmental and economic performance. Avenues for future research are identified which will provide a means for the ethical foundations of theory and practice to be improved.

AB - This paper examines the growing number of publications on multinational enterprise management of sustainability issues. Based on an integrative literature review and thematic analysis, the paper analyses and synthesises the current state of knowledge about main issues arising. Key issues identified include the following: choice of sustainability strategies; management of the views of headquarters towards sustainability; local cultural sustainability perspectives in developed and developing host countries; MNEs with home in developing/emerging countries; and resource availability for implementing sustainability initiatives. Findings indicate that although the literature is tending towards growing acceptance about sustainability and its challenges most researchers have focused on corporate social responsibility and investigate their own niche problem, industry, and country, using their own chosen theory and do not consider the need for consolidation and integration of social, environmental and economic performance. Avenues for future research are identified which will provide a means for the ethical foundations of theory and practice to be improved.

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - Multinational enterprise

KW - Sustainability strategy

KW - Distance

KW - Distance

KW - Multinational enterprise

KW - Sustainability strategy

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056889540&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s10551-018-4066-0

DO - 10.1007/s10551-018-4066-0

M3 - Scientific review articles

AN - SCOPUS:85056889540

VL - 164

SP - 389

EP - 410

JO - Journal of Business Ethics

JF - Journal of Business Ethics

SN - 0167-4544

IS - 2

ER -