Multinational Enterprise Strategies for Addressing Sustainability: the Need for Consolidation

Burritt, RL; Christ, KL; Rammal, HG; Schaltegger, S

Multinational Enterprise Strategies for Addressing Sustainability: the Need for Consolidation

Burritt, RL Christ, KL Rammal, HG

Schaltegger, S

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Citation:: Journal of Business Ethics, 2018
Issue Date:: 2018-01-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Burritt, RL	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Christ, KL	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Rammal, HG https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3346-080X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Schaltegger, S	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:13:56Z
dc.date.issued	2018-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Business Ethics, 2018	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0167-4544	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/129628
dc.description.abstract	© 2018, Springer Nature B.V. 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.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Business Ethics	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/s10551-018-4066-0	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Applied Ethics	en_US
dc.title	Multinational Enterprise Strategies for Addressing Sustainability: the Need for Consolidation	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management	en_US
utslib.for	1505 Marketing	en_US
utslib.for	2201 Applied Ethics	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

© 2018, Springer Nature B.V. 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.

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