Human resource departments tend to be a “want to be” and “should be” player in corporate social and environmental sustainability activities. "This needs to change," argue the authors. Companies that perform well with respect to sustainability can be distinguished from those that don’t by an array of organizational design features. High performers have a clear […]
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The Crucial — and Underappreciated — Role of HR in Sustainability
- 06 Novembre
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On the effectiveness of private transnational governance regimes—Evaluating corporate sustainability reporting according to the Global Reporting Initiative
- 06 Novembre
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- Articles scientifiques
Publication date: Available online 30 October 2014
Source:Journal of World Business
Author(s): Ralf Barkemeyer , Lutz Preuss , Lindsay Lee
The increasing involvement of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in global governance has been both applauded for its potential to make governance more effective and criticized for lacking democratic legitimization. Hence we investigate the effectiveness of one transnational governance regime, corporate sustainability reporting according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). We found that the GRI has been successful in terms of output effectiveness by promoting the dissemination of sustainability reporting, in particular among Asian and South American companies. However, the outcome effectiveness of the GRI is limited as reporting showed a rather uniform content across countries and sectors which does not reflect materiality considerations. As GRI reporting does not seem to have facilitated greater company–stakeholder interaction, its impact effectiveness is likely to be limited too.
Source:Journal of World Business
Author(s): Ralf Barkemeyer , Lutz Preuss , Lindsay Lee
Global sustainability pressures and strategic choice: The role of firms’ structures and non-market capabilities in selection and implementation of sustainability initiatives
- 06 Novembre
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- Articles scientifiques
Publication date: Available online 30 October 2014
Source:Journal of World Business
Author(s): Serge Poisson-de Haro , Alex Bitektine
Through the comparative analysis of sustainable development (SD) strategies of three Spanish electric utilities, we explore how differences in electricity production technologies and non-market capabilities of these companies resulted in substantial differences in the degree and nature of their SD involvement over time. This longitudinal study of SD strategies highlights the pluralism of SD commitment interpretations and reveals the non-deterministic nature of SD strategy evolution. While some differences in companies’ strategic choices could be explained by their existing production capacity constraints, the evolution of SD commitment interpretations and SD actions reflect strategic choices grounded in non-market capabilities of the firms.
Source:Journal of World Business
Author(s): Serge Poisson-de Haro , Alex Bitektine
Framing resource-constrained innovation at the ‘bottom of the pyramid’: Insights from an ethnographic case study in rural Bangladesh
- 03 Novembre
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Publication date: Available online 27 October 2014
Source:Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Author(s): Mario Pansera , Richard Owen
Resource constrained-innovation (RCI) at the so-called ‘bottom of the pyramid’ (BOP) in developing countries has attracted the attention of a growing number of scholars, who present different and sometimes conflicting narratives within which such innovation is framed. These variously frame innovation as supporting the opening up of new markets in the BOP (the ‘poor as consumers’) where multi-national companies are key actors, or grassroots, indigenous innovation aimed primarily at social and environmental goals, such as inclusion, empowerment and sustainability. We present the results of an ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh in which we explored the framing and dynamics of RCI. We found that rather than following any one particular narrative presented in the literature, innovation framings merge and co-exist through a process of hybridisation. Our research suggests that further empirical study of such processes of hybridisation in the field could be valuable for understanding RCI and associated social change at the BOP. This may have broader relevance for a world where resource constraint may become an increasingly ubiquitous phenomenon.
Source:Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Author(s): Mario Pansera , Richard Owen
