Multinational Enterprise Strategies for Addressing Sustainability: the Need for Consolidation
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In: Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 164, No. 2, 01.06.2020, p. 389-410.
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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 -