A Review of Corporate Purpose: An Approach to Actioning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Jimenez, Dayana; Franco, Isabel B.; Smith, Tahlia

doi:10.3390/su13073899

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“…To achieve the SDGs companies need to shift found from the "business as usual" approach, which perceives sustainability as an externality, to incorporating sustainability factors in the company's underlying purpose (Jimenez et al, 2021). What is needed is a move towards "sustainable market orientation" where consumer and societal welfare is firmly placed at the heart of all business processes.…”

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Analysis of the predictive variables of socially responsible consumption

Palacios-González

Mera

2021

Bus Strat Dev

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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the UN for 2030 implies designing strategies that promote socially responsible consumption. The effectiveness of these strategies will depend on understanding the variables that influence socially responsible behaviour. We must also bear in mind that these variables and this behaviour are of a dynamic, multidimensional and non-universal nature. The objective of this work is to identify how three attitudinal variables (emotional engagement, perceived consumer effectiveness and perception of personal gain) influence socially responsible consumption, through a model of structural equations.To do this, a survey was conducted of 415 Spanish consumers. The results reflect that socially responsible consumption is mainly explained by emotional engagement and to a lesser extent by perceived consumer effectiveness. In contrast, it is not influenced by perception of personal gain.

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confidence: 99%

Analysis of the predictive variables of socially responsible consumption

Palacios-González

Mera

2021

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“…The clusters that presented the most specialized studies on a specific SDG were 1, 5, and 6. In each of them, the most analyzed SDGs were also 12, 8, and 9 The research on the role that companies play in the fulfillment of the SDGs is mainly empirical, although there have also been several studies that carried out literature reviews and approached the subject from a theoretical point of view (e.g., [152,169,192]). In those cases in which the analysis was carried out in a practical way, the most used methodology was content analysis (e.g., [7,123,164]).…”

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Businesses’ Role in the Fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda: A Bibliometric Analysis

2022

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Companies worldwide can play a fundamental role in the fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda. This paper aims to determine the scope of the existing literature about the role that organizations play in contributing to the advancement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A bibliometric analysis is conducted considering the papers specifically focused on SDGs and businesses published from 2015 to 2021 in journals indexed in the Scopus database. The analysis shows that approximately 80% of the studies on this topic have been published in the last three years. Moreover, only one journal (Sustainability) has published more than the 50% of the publications on the subject. The final sample is divided into 11 clusters that analyze different perspectives within the same research topic, and, in all these clusters, practically all of the papers have been published in the last two years, which confirms that this issue is increasing its presence in the academic world. This work extends the existing research on the subject, taking into account the publications of the last year, so it is an update on this “hot topic”. Moreover, it contributes to providing a reference frame of the state of the art of this research topic and can orientate researchers in the development of future studies

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“…However, this purpose should not be considered as an end state but rather a continuous journey to propagate organizational change toward a more sustainable society (Jimenez et al, 2021).…”

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Why Not Use the Sea? A Shared Value Approach to Sustainable Value Creation When Using Carbon Dioxide as a Valuable Resource in Manufacturing

Agwu¹,

Oftedal²,

Bertella³

2022

Front. Sustain.

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Interest on the creation of sustainable value has recently increased as a response to global issues caused by traditional business-as-usual logic. Indeed, corporations pursuing profits and competitive advantage at the expense of social and environmental resources has become a source of pressing concern and institutionalized unsustainability needs to be reversed. To create sustainable value, a paradigm shift is required in who benefits from value creation: beyond customers, suppliers, and business partners, value should be created for an expanded range of stakeholders including governmental and non-governmental entities, local communities, and future generations. This study refers to unique value creation derived from business modeling for sustainability and the stakeholder theory perspective as a theoretical lens for understanding how sustainable shared value is created in the context of carbon capture and utilization. Using an exploratory, in-depth single case study of a microalgae cultivation project, the study gathers empirical evidence to show how engaging stakeholders around a common purpose can serve as a path to open new business opportunities for sustainable shared value. This study challenges the Friedman's assertion of shareholder profits and shows evidence of the power of creating shared value if a company adopts a purpose beyond profits. Through empirical findings on how embedding a sustainable purpose at the core can lead to business opportunities that provide shared value for multiple stakeholders, it outlines how a company can obtain value propositions that cater to economic, environmental, and societal balance in the drive to move toward a more sustainable society. This study thus contributes to the growing body of empirical literature on creating shared value and business models for sustainability. The findings are also relevant for various industry practitioners, presenting insights on sustainable value creation and business modeling for an industry plagued by high emissions and stakeholder pressure to do good.

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A Review of Corporate Purpose: An Approach to Actioning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Cited by 28 publications

References 67 publications

Analysis of the predictive variables of socially responsible consumption

Analysis of the predictive variables of socially responsible consumption

Businesses’ Role in the Fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda: A Bibliometric Analysis

Why Not Use the Sea? A Shared Value Approach to Sustainable Value Creation When Using Carbon Dioxide as a Valuable Resource in Manufacturing

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