Values and multi-stakeholder dialog for business transformation in light of the UN sustainable development goals

The objective of this article is to create an understanding of how the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) can be used to steer stakeholder engagement for transformative change, meeting global challenges, and navigate a new business-societal practice driven by a values-based business model. The...

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Auteurs: Petros Sebhatu, Samuel 1972- (Auteur) ; Enquist, Bo (Auteur)
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Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2022
Dans: Journal of business ethics
Année: 2022, Volume: 180, Numéro: 4, Pages: 1059-1074
Sujets non-standardisés:B Business transformation
B CSR
B Navigation
B Steering
B Ecosystem
B Organizational values
B Sustainability
B Multi-stakeholder dialog
B United Nations sustainable developmental goals (SDGs)
B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
B Values
B Business network
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Résumé:The objective of this article is to create an understanding of how the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) can be used to steer stakeholder engagement for transformative change, meeting global challenges, and navigate a new business-societal practice driven by a values-based business model. The article is a conceptual study with case studies of the role that the SDGs play in multi-stakeholder dialog via the kind of sustainable business-societal practice that takes corporate social responsibility (CSR) to the next level, where it is embedded in a values-based business model, creating a new meaning to effect real business-societal transformation. Multi-stakeholder dialog implies interactive and communicative engagement with the full range of stakeholders in order to create value for all, employing a societal perspective and using the value network as a basis for effective decision-making. We explain our methodological approach by presenting multi-stakeholder dialog in practice, in the form of multiple case studies. These empirical settings consisted of two values-driven privately owned companies with a strong reporting mechanism and a clear transformation agenda based on the SDG challenges: IKEA and Löfbergs. The empirical study provides the basis for our proposed model. This article makes an original contribution to the study of the use of SDGs in management and service research. It investigates steering and navigating processes in specific contexts in order to determine what should be subject to legal enforcement and what comprises moral and/or ethical value, particularly at the societal level.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-022-05195-x