Multinational Enterprises and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
Published on 30. October 2009
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-84844-413-3 (ISBN)
Description
Transnational corporations play a role in the design, diffusion, and consolidation of sustainable development in the context of globalization and multinational firms. In this timely book European and American contributors analyze this role and explore the complex and dynamic phenomena of economic, political, cultural and legal interactions involved. In order to understand this interplay, the authors examine the practices and organizational behaviors used by multinationals in sustainable development. They also discuss the evolving concepts that multinationals hold about sustainable development and corporate social responsibility and how companies reaffirm these philosophies through their strategy and organizational practices such as human resource development, marketing, supply chain, information technology, law, and communications. The authors outline an approach to help identify the key details and motivating factors in decision making.
Scholars, students and policy analysts in the fields of business, ecology, economic development and developmental economics and consultants focusing in corporate planning and strategic analysis will find this original collection of great value.
Scholars, students and policy analysts in the fields of business, ecology, economic development and developmental economics and consultants focusing in corporate planning and strategic analysis will find this original collection of great value.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84844-413-3 (9781848444133)
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Persons
Edited by John R. McIntyre, Professor & Executive Director, CIBER, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, US, Silvester Ivanaj, Professor, ICN Business School and researcher, CEREFIGE and Vera Ivanaj, Associate Professor, ENSIC and researcher, CEREFIGE, Universite de Lorraine, Nancy, France
Content
Contents:
Introduction
PART I: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS
1. Multinational Enterprises and Sustainable Development: A Review of Strategy Process Research
Vera Ivanaj and John R. McIntyre
2. The UN Galaxy, Transnational Corporations and Sustainable Development
Tagi Sagafi-nejad
3. Are Multinational Corporations Compatible with Sustainable Development? The Experience of Developing Countries
Abdulai Abdul-Gafaru
4. Sustainable Development and Resource-based Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Economies: Models of Corporate Production Behavior
Kofi Afriyie
5. Of Butterflies and Hummingbirds: Industrial Ecology 'On the Wing'
Van V. Miller and Charles T. Crespy
6. Multinationals and the Challenge of Sustainable Development: Knowledge in Cooperative Networks
Mohamed Bayad, Michael Benedic, Malek Bourguiba and Christophe Schmitt
7. The Future of Sustainable Development and MNEs: A Diffusion Framework
Jonathan Lefevre and Gabriele Suder
PART II: STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS AND ASSESSMENT
8. Multinationals' Sustainable Supply Chains and Influence on Suppliers Inside and Outside the USA: A Comparative Approach
Bernd Philipp
9. Sustainability Metrics for Multinational Corporations - Greater Profits and a More Sustainable World
Salwa M. Beheiry
10. Assessing the Sustainable Development Commitment of European MNEs
Silvester Ivanaj, Jacky Koehl, Sandrine Peney and E. Guenter Schumacher
PART III: DISCOURSE AND BEST PRACTICES
11. Understanding the Self-regulation Potential of Voluntary International Initiatives for Corporate Conduct: The Role of Sponsor Goals
Glen Taylor and Petra Christmann
12. Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Enterprises in China
Maria Lai-Ling Lam
13. The Discourses and Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility as a New Component of the Strategies of Multinational Companies: An Illustration with French Multinational Companies
Pierre Bardelli and Manuela Pastore-Chaverot
14. International Supply Chain Management: Lever for Sustainable Development? An Analysis of Discourses and Applications
Yvette Masson-Franzil
15. The Search for a Sustainable Approach to Traditional French Wine Production in the Face of Competition from Multinational Companies
Marie-Pierre Arzelier
Index
Introduction
PART I: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS
1. Multinational Enterprises and Sustainable Development: A Review of Strategy Process Research
Vera Ivanaj and John R. McIntyre
2. The UN Galaxy, Transnational Corporations and Sustainable Development
Tagi Sagafi-nejad
3. Are Multinational Corporations Compatible with Sustainable Development? The Experience of Developing Countries
Abdulai Abdul-Gafaru
4. Sustainable Development and Resource-based Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Economies: Models of Corporate Production Behavior
Kofi Afriyie
5. Of Butterflies and Hummingbirds: Industrial Ecology 'On the Wing'
Van V. Miller and Charles T. Crespy
6. Multinationals and the Challenge of Sustainable Development: Knowledge in Cooperative Networks
Mohamed Bayad, Michael Benedic, Malek Bourguiba and Christophe Schmitt
7. The Future of Sustainable Development and MNEs: A Diffusion Framework
Jonathan Lefevre and Gabriele Suder
PART II: STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS AND ASSESSMENT
8. Multinationals' Sustainable Supply Chains and Influence on Suppliers Inside and Outside the USA: A Comparative Approach
Bernd Philipp
9. Sustainability Metrics for Multinational Corporations - Greater Profits and a More Sustainable World
Salwa M. Beheiry
10. Assessing the Sustainable Development Commitment of European MNEs
Silvester Ivanaj, Jacky Koehl, Sandrine Peney and E. Guenter Schumacher
PART III: DISCOURSE AND BEST PRACTICES
11. Understanding the Self-regulation Potential of Voluntary International Initiatives for Corporate Conduct: The Role of Sponsor Goals
Glen Taylor and Petra Christmann
12. Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Enterprises in China
Maria Lai-Ling Lam
13. The Discourses and Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility as a New Component of the Strategies of Multinational Companies: An Illustration with French Multinational Companies
Pierre Bardelli and Manuela Pastore-Chaverot
14. International Supply Chain Management: Lever for Sustainable Development? An Analysis of Discourses and Applications
Yvette Masson-Franzil
15. The Search for a Sustainable Approach to Traditional French Wine Production in the Face of Competition from Multinational Companies
Marie-Pierre Arzelier
Index