Global connectedness and dynamic green capabilities in MNEs

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Maksimov, Vladislav; Wang, Stephanie Lu; Yan, Shipeng
• 署名单位: University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; City University of Hong Kong
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-019-00275-z
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 723-740
• 关键词: environmental sustainability; MNEs; DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; global connectedness; knowledge-based view

摘要

We study how global connectedness can help MNEs become more environmentally sustainable. Based on the idea that environmental sustainability requires dynamic capabilities, we define dynamic green capability as the ability to build complementary green competences and reconfigure organizationally embedded resources to pursue competitive advantage in a rapidly changing stakeholder environment. We argue that MNEs with greater global connectedness in terms of international diversification or international environmental certification possess knowledge advantages in cultivating dynamic green capabilities. We extend the sensing-seizing-reconfiguring framework and propose that global connectedness substitutes for sensing as a driver of seizing by providing direct access to relevant green knowledge pools around the world, and that it complements seizing as a driver of reconfiguring by strengthening the knowledge routines needed to integrate green competences.