The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals: Can multinational enterprises lead the Decade of Action?
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SBMs operate within systems of competing stakeholder interests, regulatory uncertainty, and long-term societal expectations, which complicates managerial decision-making and accountability.
“Contemporary sustainability scholarship stresses that SBMs operate within systems of competing stakeholder interests, regulatory uncertainty, and long-term societal expectations, which fundamentally complicates managerial decision-making and accountability [17].”
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In “SDGs and Future IB Research” (page unavailable), the paper says MNEs must manage differing stakeholder demands across institutional environments and consider trade-offs in sustainable business-model innovation. It also discusses long-term sustainability, but does not establish regulatory uncertainty or specifically say these conditions complicate managerial accountability. Its discussion concerns MNEs, rather than sustainable business models generally. (LLM, conf=0.83)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredSBM implementation remains conceptually and managerially complex.
“However, recent research emphasizes that their implementation remains conceptually and managerially complex.”
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- Authors
- Van Tulder, R., Rodrigues, S. B., Mirza, H., & Sexsmith, K.
- Affiliations
- Universidade de Brasília (BR)
- International Institute for Sustainable Development (CA)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of International Business Policy
- Published
- 2021-02-16
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-21
- ISSN
- 2522-0691 (ISSN-L)
- 2522-0705
- PMC
- PMC7884867
- OpenAlex
- W3131131915
- Cited by
- 272
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 35 · 2025: 66 · 2024: 65 · 2023: 63 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 12
- FWCI
- 41.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of International Business Policy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Sustainability and Innovation in Business
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › International Business and FDI
- Keywords
- Sustainable Development Goals, multinational corporations, corporate sustainability strategy, hybrid governance, SDG indicators, international business research agenda, corporate social responsibility
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