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Supply Chain Sustainability and Human Capital: A Multilevel Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how corporate sustainability practices diffuse across global supply chains and how national contextual capacity shapes this process. Drawing on stakeholder and institutional perspectives, we conceptualize ESG transmission as relational and potentially asymmetric between customers and suppliers.
Jun Xie   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Certifications as Strategic Tools: Environmental Accountability, Institutional Robustness and Global Convergence

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability certifications are increasingly used as strategic tools to advance accountability for environmental sustainability. This study addresses the challenge of fragmented national certification standards by proposing and applying a replicable method to assess the structural robustness and convergence of industry‐specific ...
Teresa Turzo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leveraging Double Materiality as a Decision‐Making Tool for ESG Management and Reporting in Hydroponics

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and double materiality can be integrated within the agri‐food sector, with a particular focus on a company operating in hydroponic agriculture. This study conducts a comprehensive double materiality assessment to evaluate the organization's socio‐environmental ...
Christian Bux   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multinational Company Litigation

2021
Jason Brickhill and Zanele Mbuyisa review the current state of play in South Africa in terms of the imposition of civil liability on multinationals for human rights abuses. They outline the rules on jurisdiction over claims by foreign claimants and corporations and potential causes of action under common law, statute, and the Constitution.
Jason Brickhill, Zanele Mbuyisa
openaire   +1 more source

The Role of the Multinational Companies

2005
This chapter analyzes the role of MNCs in the development of the software industry in India, Ireland, and Israel. It shows that the evolution of software activities and the role of MNCs varied considerably across these three countries in terms of the timing of entry and the type of activities conducted by MNCs.
GIARRATANA M.   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Multinational Companies

2006
• Understand different organization structure of multinational corporations • Apply the organization structure models to analyze the global organization structure of Robert Bosch GmbH • Analyze the regional organization structure for Robert Bosch US • Obtain an overview of the theoretical models of business strategies used by multinational ...
Chetan Sankar, Karl-Heinz Rau
openaire   +1 more source

Multinational Companies in China

2017
Multinational companies have been doing business in China for over 25 years, with their presence and manning of their operations varying over time. Some mistakes of managing businesses are strikingly common and detrimental. This book explores those mistakes providing guidance that will help readers become more conscious and avoid repeating them.
Xin Guo, Frank T. Gallo
openaire   +1 more source

New protectionism and multinational companies

Journal of International Economics, 1996
Abstract This paper examines the welfare effects of eliminating non-tariff barriers (NTBs), when firms expand abroad via export or direct investment (DI). Two broad categories of NTBs are considered according to whether they discriminate only against the foreign exporter (Type I) or also against the local subsidiary of the foreign-owned firm (Type II)
openaire   +1 more source

Indigenous and multinational pharmaceutical companies

Social Science & Medicine, 1983
There is a set of complex relationships between governments and the pharmaceutical companies. These relationships can be analysed in many different ways. In the following article the drug system of each country will be the unit of analysis. The drug system includes all the decision processes, formal as well as informal, from the production or ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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