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The Role of Business in Delivering The Sustainable Development Goals: Strategies and Cross-Sector Partnerships
Existing research on the inter-relational benefits of business for sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals has only recently begun and as such, is minimal. Despite a generally shared assumption that organizational culture impacts the firm’s ability to integrate sustainability with its core operational and procedural strategies and, ultimately, the firm’s partnership for the delivery of SDGs, empirical research rarely tests this assumption. This dissertation adopts a case study approach to empirically explore the role of business in SDG delivery in three inter-related studies. Case studies A and B illustrate corporate sustainability integration and implementation at two multinational corporations. Case study C illustrates urban sustainability planning at a major US city and reveals influences on the formation and implementation of partnerships between business and other stakeholders for urban sustainability initiatives. These three cases form the empirical bases for the investigations in this dissertation. Study 1 cross-compares case studies A and B to identify factors that explain the varying ability of corporations to integrate corporate sustainability with their core strategies. This is analyzed on three levels: the external influences, the firm level influences, and the intra-firm level influences. It analyses the processes firms adopt to determine the material topics they focus on. Study 2 investigates case study C to understand how firms manage cross-sector partnerships with other stakeholder groups for urban sustainability. The case studies are developed from authoritative and empirical knowledge sources. They illustrate procedures, enable the generation of relevant comparative data points that explain various occurrences, and allow for convergence through inductive coding and thematic analysis. Its findings are significant in explaining the stakes and claims that business and society have on each other.
The Role of Business in Delivering The Sustainable Development Goals: Strategies and Cross-Sector Partnerships
Existing research on the inter-relational benefits of business for sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals has only recently begun and as such, is minimal. Despite a generally shared assumption that organizational culture impacts the firm’s ability to integrate sustainability with its core operational and procedural strategies and, ultimately, the firm’s partnership for the delivery of SDGs, empirical research rarely tests this assumption. This dissertation adopts a case study approach to empirically explore the role of business in SDG delivery in three inter-related studies. Case studies A and B illustrate corporate sustainability integration and implementation at two multinational corporations. Case study C illustrates urban sustainability planning at a major US city and reveals influences on the formation and implementation of partnerships between business and other stakeholders for urban sustainability initiatives. These three cases form the empirical bases for the investigations in this dissertation. Study 1 cross-compares case studies A and B to identify factors that explain the varying ability of corporations to integrate corporate sustainability with their core strategies. This is analyzed on three levels: the external influences, the firm level influences, and the intra-firm level influences. It analyses the processes firms adopt to determine the material topics they focus on. Study 2 investigates case study C to understand how firms manage cross-sector partnerships with other stakeholder groups for urban sustainability. The case studies are developed from authoritative and empirical knowledge sources. They illustrate procedures, enable the generation of relevant comparative data points that explain various occurrences, and allow for convergence through inductive coding and thematic analysis. Its findings are significant in explaining the stakes and claims that business and society have on each other.
The Role of Business in Delivering The Sustainable Development Goals: Strategies and Cross-Sector Partnerships
2022-04-28
Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
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