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Multinational Enterprises And The Challenge Of Sustainable Development |
Edited by John R. McIntyre, Professor of Management and International Affairs, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, US and is also the Founding Director of its National Center for International Business Education and Research, Silvester Ivanaj, Associate Professor of Information Systems, ICN Business School, Nancy, France and Vera Ivanaj, Associate Professor of Management Science, Chemical Engineering School (ENSIC), Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), University of Nancy, France and Member, CEREFIGE, a Research Laboratory in Management Sciences and Finance, Universities of Lorraine, France
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Contents:
Introduction
PART I: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS
1. Multinational Enterprises and Sustainable Development: A Review of Strategy Process Research
Vera Ivanaj and John R. McIntyre
2. The UN Galaxy, Transnational Corporations and Sustainable Development
Tagi Sagafi-nejad
3. Are Multinational Corporations Compatible with Sustainable Development? The Experience of Developing Countries
Abdulai Abdul-Gafaru
4. Sustainable Development and Resource-based Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Economies: Models of Corporate Production Behavior
Kofi Afriyie
5. Of Butterflies and Hummingbirds: Industrial Ecology ‘On the Wing’
Van V. Miller and Charles T. Crespy
6. Multinationals and the Challenge of Sustainable Development: Knowledge in Cooperative Networks
Mohamed Bayad, Michaël Bénédic, Malek Bourguiba and Christophe Schmitt
7. The Future of Sustainable Development and MNEs: A Diffusion Framework
Jonathan Lefevre and Gabriele Suder
PART II: STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS AND ASSESSMENT
8. Multinationals’ Sustainable Supply Chains and Influence on Suppliers Inside and Outside the USA: A Comparative Approach
Bernd Philipp
9. Sustainability Metrics for Multinational Corporations – Greater Profits and a More Sustainable World
Salwa M. Beheiry
10. Assessing the Sustainable Development Commitment of European MNEs
Silvester Ivanaj, Jacky Koehl, Sandrine Peney and E. Günter Schumacher
PART III: DISCOURSE AND BEST PRACTICES
11. Understanding the Self-regulation Potential of Voluntary International Initiatives for Corporate Conduct: The Role of Sponsor Goals
Glen Taylor and Petra Christmann
12. Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Enterprises in China
Maria Lai-Ling Lam
13. The Discourses and Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility as a New Component of the Strategies of Multinational Companies: An Illustration with French Multinational Companies
Pierre Bardelli and Manuela Pastore-Chaverot
14. International Supply Chain Management: Lever for Sustainable Development? An Analysis of Discourses and Applications
Yvette Masson-Franzil
15. The Search for a Sustainable Approach to Traditional French Wine Production in the Face of Competition from Multinational Companies
Marie-Pierre Arzelier
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2009
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352 pp
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Hardback |
978 1 84844 413 3
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