The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent the leading governance frame with which the international community tries to address complex interconnected global issues. The SDGs can be considered the only relevant agenda for progress in the years to come.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent the leading governance frame with which the international community tries to address complex interconnected global issues. The SDGs were adopted in 2015 by all 193 UN member states and were also quickly embraced by most Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), International NGOs and leading business schools. But progress has proved slow. In 2020, the United Nations announced a decade of action to speed-up progress in the area. To what extent and under what circumstances can MNEs help in this effort: revitalize the SDGs and rescue the beneficial effects of globalization?
Volume 17 in the series Progress in International Business Research argues that the SDGs can be considered the only relevant agenda for progress in the years to come. This makes it all the more important to critically consider the role played by MNEs, as well as explore the way IB scholarship can help MNEs to walk the talk on the complex issues that affect the sustainable development thereby leveraging the future shape of globalization.
The book contains contributions by established as well as young scholars and is intended to stimulate present and future research, create new forms of conceptualizations and provide first evidence of more focused empirical research on the topic of MNEs and the SDGs.
Part I: General Challenges for IB Scholarship
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1. Introduction. IB Scholarship and the Sustainable Development
Goals: Seizing Opportunities, While Tackling Challenges; Rob van Tulder,
Isabel Įlvarez, and Elisa Giuliani
Chapter
2. International Business and the SDGs: Current Issues and Future
Directions; Pervez Ghauri, Faith Hatani, Yingying Zhang-Zhang, Sylvia
Rohlfer, and Maoliang Bu
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3. Measuring and Managing the Impact of Business on the SDGs; Jan
Anton van Zanten
Part II: Strategic Challenges for MNEs
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4. Walking the Talk: Making the SDGs Core Business An Integrated
Approach; Filipa Pires de Almeida, Rob van Tulder, and Suzana B. Rodrigues
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5. Catalyzing Progress Toward the UNs SDGs: Building Systemic
Partnerships Across Organizations Using the I-RES Methodology; Luis Dau,
Larissa Pacheco, Robin White, Elizabeth Allen, and Elizabeth Moore
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6. Addressing the Complexities in Implementing SDGs in International
Business; Simone Carmine and Valentina de Marchi
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7. SDGs and Strategic Priorities of MNEs for Sustainability
Transformation Lessons from IKEA; Bo Enquist and Samuel Petros Sebhatu
Part III: The Nexus Challenge
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8. Balancing Purpose and Profit in Foreign Direct Investment: How
Development Finance Institutions Promote the SDGs While Being Profitable;
Suhyon Oh and Michael Wendelboe Hansen
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9. The Nexus Between Cultural and Creative Sectors and the
Sustainable Development Goals: A Network Perspective; Yang Gao, Ekaterina
Turkina, and Ari Van Aasche
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10. Trade-offs in FDI Effects on SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa
Countries; Paola Garrone, Lucia Piscitello, Matilde dAmelio, and Emanuela
Colombo
Part IV: Contextualizing the SDGs
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11. Tax Impact of Multinationals in Central and Eastern Europe on
Sustainable Development Goals; Petr Prochįzka
Chapter
12. Climate Change Disclosures of Companies in Selected Developed and
Emerging Countries with Impression Management Perspective; Nazl Ece Bulgur,
Emel Esen, and Selin Karaca
Chapter
13. Multinational Corporations in Sustainable Cities: The Case of a
Sustainable Headquarters Building; Tiina Ritvala, Ella Ahmas, and Rebecca
Piekkari
Chapter
14. Ports and the Sustainable Development Goals: An Ecosystems
Approach; Maurice Jansen
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15. Possibilities for Upgrading High-tech GVCs Towards Stronger SDG
Performance; Antonio Biurrun and Isabel Alvarez
Chapter
16. Tensions on the Road Towards Just Transitions in the Latin
American Coffee Value Chain; Katie Louise Andrews, Noemi Sinkovics, and
Rudolf R. Sinkovics
Part V: SDG-Washing Challenges
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17. Corporate Misbehavior in the Banking Industry: What Role Does the
State Play?; Federica Nieri
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18. Saving the Planet is Not for Everybody: A Model of CEOs
Reactions to Human Rights Defenders; Verdiana Morreale and Elisa Giuliani
Rob van Tulder, Business Society Management and Academic Director Partnerships Resource Centre (PrC), RSM Erasmus University, Netherlands.
Elisa Giuliani, Professor of Management at the University of Pisa and founder and director of the Responsible Management Research Center (REMARC).
Isabel Įlvarez, Full Professor at the Economics Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
