Critical Perspectives on International Business,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
20(3), P. 297 - 320
Published: Aug. 23, 2023
Purpose
The
paper
frames
modern
slavery
as
a
global
wicked
problem
and
aims
to
provide
set
of
international
business
(IB)
policy
recommendations
for
taming
it.
outlined
approach
can
also
guide
IB
policymaking
address
other
kinds
problems.
Design/methodology/approach
This
is
conceptual
that
reviews
existing
literature
on
problems
integrates
it
with
an
double
helix
framework.
focuseses
the
role
multinational
enterprises
(MNEs)
play
in
moderl
globally,
either
through
value
chains
or
within
factory
modes
operation.
Findings
As
problem,
will
never
be
solved,
but
re-solved
time
over.
Understanding
social
reproduction
help
shift
focus
from
labor
governance
narrow
supply
chain
toward
transnational
need
institutional,
market
organizational
failures.
Originality/value
contributes
gap
overarching
theory
systematically
applies
concept
wickedness
slavery.
Drawing
framework,
addresses
nexus
between
slavery,
which
turn
advance
research
theory.
Business Strategy and the Environment,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
30(8), P. 3703 - 3720
Published: May 25, 2021
Abstract
Companies
play
a
decisive
role
in
achieving
the
Sustainable
Development
Goals
(SDGs).
However,
most
of
world's
sustainable
development
challenges
are
interconnected
and
systemic
their
nature.
How
can
companies
ensure
that
strategies
effectively
contribute
to
development?
This
interdisciplinary
paper
draws
from
social‐ecological
systems,
corporate
sustainability,
sustainability
sciences
literatures,
order
introduce
nexus
approach
sustainability.
A
induces
assess
manage
positive
negative
interactions
with
SDGs—which
may
arise
directly
indirectly—in
an
integrated
manner.
Instead
treating
SDGs
as
isolated
silos,
aims
advance
multiple
simultaneously
(creating
“co‐benefits”)
while
reducing
risk
contributions
one
SDG
undermine
progress
on
another
(avoiding
“trade‐offs”).
Through
managing
between
SDGs,
enables
improve
societal
environmental
impacts.
is
step
towards
developing
theory
management
helps
impacts
development.
Such
sorely
needed
drive
safeguard
“SDG‐washing.”
Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
13(11), P. 6447 - 6447
Published: June 6, 2021
This
research
assesses
the
influence
of
education
development
support,
conceptual
and
country
support
through
entrepreneurial
self-efficacy
over
green
intentions.
A
total
532
business
students
in
Ecuador
participated
an
online
survey.
Eight
questions
were
focused
on
demographic
information,
twenty-seven
evaluated
entrepreneurship
intentions
students.
An
SEM-PLS
technical
analysis
was
used.
The
results
showed
that
educational
for
developing
(0.296),
(0.123),
(0.188)
had
a
positive
self-efficacy,
(0.855)
gren
model
explained
73.1%
Outcomes
bootstrapping
test
used
to
evaluate
if
path
coefficients
are
significant.
study
impacts
entrepreneur’s
ability
carry
out
positive.
information
can
help
universities
develop
strategic
plans
achieve
ecological
ventures
ensure
have
necessary
skills
do
so
campus.
findings
also
may
be
helpful
governments
establishing
new
norms
promote
entrepreneurship.
novelty
is
based
using
partial
least
square
structural
equation
modeling
(PLS-SEM)
technique.
Journal of Business Ethics,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
180(4), P. 945 - 957
Published: Sept. 1, 2022
Abstract
The
world
is
not
on
track
to
achieve
Agenda
2030—the
approach
chosen
in
2015
by
all
UN
member
states
engage
multiple
stakeholders
for
the
common
goal
of
sustainable
development.
creation
17
Sustainable
Development
Goals
(SDGs)
arguably
offered
a
new
take
development
adopting
hybrid
and
principle-based
governance
approaches,
where
public,
private,
profit
knowledge-institutions
were
invited
around
achieving
medium-term
targets.
Cross-sector
partnerships
multi-stakeholder
engagement
sustainability
have
consequently
taken
shape.
But
call
collaboration
has
also
come
with
fundamental
challenges
meaningful
strategies—when
private
enterprises
try
establish
elaborate
configurations.
How
can
purpose
businesses
be
mitigated
through
effectively
serve
agenda?
In
selecting
nine
scholarly
contributions,
this
special
issue
aims
at
advancing
discourse.
To
stimulate
further
progress
business
studies,
introductory
essay,
furthermore,
identifies
three
pathways
research
processes
support
Decade
Action
along
coupling
lines:
multi-sector
alignment
(relational
coupling),
operational
perception
(cognitive
coupling)
strategic
(material
coupling).
Business Strategy and the Environment,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
30(5), P. 2396 - 2420
Published: Feb. 23, 2021
Abstract
The
alignment
between
corporate
strategies
and
the
Sustainable
Development
Goals
(SDGs)
can
be
an
indicator
of
long‐term
sustainability
success.
But
which
types
companies
are
most,
least,
aligned
with
SDGs?
This
paper
scores
how
67
economic
activities—as
a
proxy
for
companies'
operations
goods
or
services
they
deliver—interact
59
SDG
targets.
It
then
uses
network
analysis
to
define
activities
most
least
Agenda.
results
reveal
four
activities,
each
having
strategic
imperative:
(i)
“core
activities”
predominantly
generate
positive,
while
few
negative,
impacts
on
SDGs,
challenging
scale
their
contributions
further
align
Agenda;
(ii)
“mixed
have
moderate/high
degrees
both
negative/positive
impacts,
posing
decoupling
imperative;
(iii)
“opposed
provide
benefits
yet
cause
significant
adverse
implying
that
must
transform
in
order
better
SDGs;
(iv)
“peripheral
immaterial
positive
negative
creating
imperative
explore
innovative
avenues
contributions.
Detailed
graphs
presented
map
interactions
SDGs
guide
creation
strategies.
Policy
implications
include
potential
using
as
lever
adopting
“nexus
approach”
SDGs.
