Multinational enterprise strategies for addressing sustainability: the need for consolidation

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...

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Auteurs: Burritt, Roger Leonard (Auteur) ; Christ, Katherine Leanne (Auteur) ; Rammal, Hussain (Auteur) ; Schaltegger, Stefan 1964- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer 2020
Dans: Journal of business ethics
Année: 2020, Volume: 164, Numéro: 2, Pages: 389-410
Sujets non-standardisés:B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
B Sustainability strategy
B Multinational Enterprise
B Distance
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-018-4066-0