RT Article
T1 Multinational enterprise strategies for addressing sustainability: the need for consolidation
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 164
IS 2
SP 389
OP 410
A1 Burritt, Roger Leonard
A1 Christ, Katherine Leanne
A1 Rammal, Hussain
A1 Schaltegger, Stefan 1964-
LA English
PB Springer
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1700556819
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.
K1 Distance
K1 Sustainability strategy
K1 Multinational Enterprise
K1 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
DO 10.1007/s10551-018-4066-0