The Role of Multinational Enterprises in Supporting the United Nations' SDGs

Edited by John R. McIntyre, Professor and Executive Director, CIBER, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, US, Silvester Ivanaj, Professor, ICN Business School and researcher, CEREFIGE and Vera Ivanaj, Associate Professor, ENSIC and researcher, CEREFIGE, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

Contents

Foreword xix
Introduction to The Role of Multinational Enterprises in Supporting
the United Nations’ SDGs 1

PART I MNEs IMPLEMENTING SDGs: WHAT WE
KNOW AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE?
1 The research landscape of MNEs and SDGs: what we know
and what needs to be done? 14
Pard Teekasap and Dina Frutos-Bencze
2 Good intentions or good strategy? MNEs’ contributions to
sustainable development in developing countries 37
Marlene Leonhartsberger, Sophie Thalmayr, and Christof Miska
3 Multinational enterprises and gender equity in STEM 58
Salwa M. Beheiry, Norita Ahmad, Linzi J. Kemp, and Richard
T. Schoephoerster

PART II MNEs ALIGNING THEIR BUSINESS STRATEGY
WITH THE SDGs
4 The sustainability solution in MNEs: understanding the
impediments to its implementation 80
Luis F. Escobar
5 MNEs’ approach to contributing to the Sustainable
Development Goals – an exploratory study 101
Marc Oberhauser
6 The role of multinational enterprises in the textile and clothing
industry in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals:
barriers and opportunities for the future 117
Thierry Houé and Eileen Murphy
7 Aligning MNEs with SDGs: peace, justice, and strong institutions 132
Duane Windsor
8 Multinational enterprises and global strategies to collaborate
with SDG 2 and SDG 3 152
Aldo Alvarez-Risco and Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales
9 The contribution of multinational enterprises to the United
Nations’ SDGs: a review of corporate governance and
sustainability research 165
Mine Doyran

PART III MNEs IDENTIFYING THE BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES INHERENT IN THE SDGs
10 Leveraging business diplomacy 191
Lichia Yiu and Raymond Saner
11 Impact of legal enforcement of CSR on SDGs 217
Rama Seth
12 MNCs engaging with the SDGs: the role(s) of
non-government organisations 252
Tom Osegowitsch, Susan Trenholm, and Angela McCabe
13 Financial disciplining of extractive industries and the SDGs 274
W. Travis Selmier II
14 Corporate sustainability assessments as a tool for integrating
SDGs into MNE practices: an investigation into the financial
sector in Malaysia 296
Agnes Pranugrahaning, Jerome D. Donovan, Cheree Topple,
and Eryadi K. Masli
15 MNEs as catalysts of productive entrepreneurship: the case of Egypt 318
Paola Garrone, Lucia Piscitello, Valentina Rotondi, and
Vittoria G. Scalera
16 Green and sustainable development case for multinational enterprises 339
Nancy H. Vaz

Index