Implementing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals in international business

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Montiel, Ivan; Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro; Park, Junghoon; Antolin-Lopez, Raquel; Husted, Bryan W.
• 署名单位: City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); Northeastern University; Universidad de Almeria; Tecnologico de Monterrey
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-021-00445-y
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 999-1030
• 关键词: externalities; International business; multinationals; GRAND CHALLENGES; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); sustainability

摘要

Building on the concept of externalities, we propose an explanation of how multinationals can contribute to the enactment of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals as part of their ordinary investments. First, we suggest grouping the 17 Sustainable Development Goals into six categories based on whether they increase positive externalities - knowledge, wealth, or health - or reduce negative externalities - the overuse of natural resources, harm to social cohesion, or overconsumption. Second, we propose placing these categories within an extended value chain to facilitate their implementation. Third, we argue that multinationals' internal investments in host-country subsidiaries to improve their competitiveness contribute to addressing externalities in host-country communities, while external investments in host communities to solve underdevelopment generate competitiveness externalities on host-country subsidiaries.