A perspective on multinational enterprises and climate change: Learning from an inconvenient truth?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kolk, Ans; Pinkse, Jonatan
• 署名单位: University of Amsterdam
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2008.61
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1359-1378
• 关键词: firm-specific advantages; Capabilities and capability development; location-bound knowledge bundles; climate change; sustainability

摘要

This paper explores whether and how an important environmental issue such as climate change can not only give multinational enterprises the opportunity to develop green'' firm-specific advantages (FSAs), but also help reconfigure key FSAs that are viewed as the main sources of firms' profitability, growth, and survival. We examine the nature and geography of such FSA development, and develop two organizing frameworks, which are subsequently applied to climate change, using information from Global 500 firms. Implications and future directions for international business research are indicated.