Environmental management of transnational corporations in India—are TNCs creating islands of environmental excellence in a sea of dirt?

Ruud, Audun

doi:10.1002/bse.321

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“…According to several recent studies, firms in the rapidly industrializing economies of Asia and Latin America are increasingly adopting more environmentally sound technologies, organizational practices, and performances, although patterns of corporate greening remain "patchy" (Jenkins 2000;Ruud 2002;Utting 2002). This article aims to improve current understanding of these dynamics, offering a more completely specified account of emerging patterns of corporate environmentalism in developing countries.…”

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Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry

Perkins

2007

St Comp Int Dev

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What explains the recent emergence of corporate environmentalism in developing countries? Why have certain firms surpassed others in greening their activities? This article situates the uneven dynamics of corporate greening within a theoretical framework of convergence, firm specificity, and heterogeneity. Through a comparative analysis of firms in three sectors-automobiles, steel, and power-of the Indian economy during the past two decades, I show that corporate greening is rooted in processes of growing international political engagement, market integration, and transnational social communication. Together, these processes have unleashed various economic and sociological convergence dynamics, which have led firms in India to adopt more environmentally sound innovations and performances increasingly similar to those found in many developed countries. Yet firms' connectedness to external pressures fostering "upward" convergence varies, as do their internal capabilities to respond to them. Heterogeneity in these internal and external variables, and the firm-specific strategies linking them, accounts for much of the unevenness in patterns of corporate environmentalism observed in India.

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Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry

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2007

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“…In some cases, such as product responsibility, supplier relations and environmental aspects, they add additional aspects to what has been common in the Chinese context (cf. Ruud, 2002). Results from a 2006 survey revealed that Chinese respondents also thought that multinationals scored better than domestic companies with regard to aspects such as CSR, handling of customer complaints and environmental protection (Liu, 2007).…”

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Corporate social responsibility in china: an analysis of domestic and foreign retailers' sustainability dimensions

2008

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In the past decade, a sizeable body of literature has built up on the concept and characteristics of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Western countries, where it has also been referred to as sustainability. More recently, attention has grown for CSR in emerging countries. Remarkably, China has hardly been studied so far. This paper aims to help fill this gap by considering, against this background, the CSR notion in China, through an exploration of a small sample of large retailers in China, both Chinese and non‐Chinese companies. The analysis of CSR/sustainability dimensions, as communicated by these large retailers in both the Chinese and the English language, shows substantial differences between the Chinese and international contexts. Interestingly, the largest divergence can be found for international retailers between their Chinese and corporate attention for CSR (so home versus host settings), most notably in the case of Carrefour, and to a lesser extent Wal‐Mart. In the Chinese context, there are differences between the Chinese and international retailers as well (so domestic versus foreign firms), with the former reporting more on economic dimensions, including philanthropy, and the latter more on product responsibility – contentious labour issues and the environment receive relatively limited attention in both groups in China. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for research and practice. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

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“…A conceptual route from GRI's 'sustainability context' to 'context-based sustainability' has been made (McElroy and van Engelen, 2012), but the specification of context here is based on objective norms, standards and thresholds of a particular territory/culture; they (i.e., the criteria) are 'subjective' only in the sense of affiliation to a local area. Although the sustainability approach should be personalised in territories/cultures where norms, values and economic progress vary (Rock, 2002;Ruud, 2002), on the other hand, the responsible subjects (i.e., governing bodies) of the ad hoc sustainability actions should be identified. In other words, up to now it has ignored the context's architect/designer (i.e., the CGB) who, with his observation (first) and with his design (after), influences the context dynamics determining the viability and the well-being of stakeholders (Golinelli and Volpe, 2012).…”

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A service-system paradigm for governing corporate sustainability: the (forgotten) role of governing body in shaping sustainability and context

Hysa

Calabrese

Bilotta

et al. 2016

IJENVH

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Corporate sustainability (CS), as an evolutionary concept, covers better many open questions and scientific confusion of corporate social responsibility (CSR). While CSR has not well defined the concept of environment, CS has recovered this gap ignoring at the same time the fundamental passage from environment to context and the context's architect/ designer (i.e., the governing body, GB). Therefore, this study, after reviewing the barriers of a corporate-context sustainability, shows how the GB, influenced by the components of information variety (i.e., information units, interpretation schemes and categorical values), contextualises the sustainability. A service-system conceptual model, based on viable systems approach (VSA) and service-dominant logic, constructs the foundations for consonance and value cocreation between the GB, context's suprasystems, general environment (e.g., other stakeholders) and international standards (e.g., GRI, Global Compact, etc.). The model integrates also the GRI-G4 report with subjective elements of the GB. 4X. Hysa et al.

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Environmental management of transnational corporations in India—are TNCs creating islands of environmental excellence in a sea of dirt?

Cited by 37 publications

References 6 publications

Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry

Globalizing Corporate Environmentalism? Convergence and Heterogeneity in Indian Industry

Corporate social responsibility in china: an analysis of domestic and foreign retailers' sustainability dimensions

A service-system paradigm for governing corporate sustainability: the (forgotten) role of governing body in shaping sustainability and context

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