Internationalization and environmental innovation in the energy sector: Exploring the differences between multinational enterprises from emerging and developed countries

Gómez‐Bolaños, Efrén; Ellimäki, Pia; Hurtado‐Torres, Nuria Esther; Delgado‐Márquez, Blanca L.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112867

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“…Argument has been existing on multinational commercial trading, particularly when those developed countries are included 49,50 . A set of adverse impacts of these trading patterns can hardly be overlooked such as intensified environmental degradation, overmuch resources exploitation, and unfavorable ratio of expenditure to payment among the trading countries 51,52 .…”

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Enhanced mitigation in nutrient surplus driven by multilateral crop trade patterns

Feng

Yan

et al. 2022

Commun Earth Environ

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Multilateral crop trade is likely to drive enhancement or mitigation of nutrient surpluses of the trading countries; however, the driving mechanisms are unclear. Here we explore the effects of multilateral crop trade on nitrogen and phosphorus surpluses based on two optimal multilateral crop trade models, a regional nutrient surplus model and crop trade data. Focusing on China and Central Asia, we find that optimal multilateral crop trades are effective to mitigate both nutrient surplus and footprint. Compared to the base year (2018), a single-objective-based crop trade would drive an obvious transition from nitrogen surplus enhancement (1170.5 kt) to mitigation (−705.8 kt over 2030–2034); the phosphorus surplus enhancement would be transferred from 1741.5 to mitigation of −2934 kt. Driven by the bilevel-objective-based crop trade, great mitigations in both nitrogen and phosphorus surpluses are detected, with the projected levels reaching −571 and −2809 kt, respectively. This implies that strengthening optimal multilateral crop trades across the world would facilitate global nutrient management.

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Enhanced mitigation in nutrient surplus driven by multilateral crop trade patterns

Feng

Yan

et al. 2022

Commun Earth Environ

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“…We included the most typical effects in international and environmental literature to account for different firm features. Previous studies (Aragón-Correa et al, 2016;Gómez-Bolaños et al, 2020) have pointed out that a firm's size affects its environmental activity, so we included firm size, measured as the natural logarithm of total assets. To control for the financial situation, we used firm leverage as firm performance measured by the ratio of total debt to total equity, in line with previous studies (Cormier & Magnan, 2015;Walls et al, 2012).…”

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“…Despite several decades of research, there remains a lack of consensus within the international business literature regarding the influence of multinational enterprises' (MNEs') internationalisation on their environmental performance (Aragón-Correa et al, 2016;Chen et al, 2016;Gómez-Bolaños et al, 2020). While some prior investigations have considered the fact that MNEs face greater institutional pressures due to higher scrutiny, which can lead them to present advanced green results (e.g., Aguilera-Caracuel et al, 2012;Bansal, 2005;Forslid et al, 2018;Gómez-Bolaños et al, 2020;Symeou et al, 2018), other works have highlighted that the higher complexity generated by operating in a larger number of different international locations can sometimes cause firms to exhibit poorer environmental performance (Aragón-Correa et al, 2016;King & Shaver, 2001;Kostova & Roth, 2003;Levy, 1995). However, previous studies have neglected the notion that both phenomena may derive from one other, meaning that MNEs' better environmental results might actually originate from a deeper ability to overcome such initial complexity and worse green results at earlier stages of their international diversification, and that firms based in certain countries may do so with greater ease.…”

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“…A growing body of research has shown that higher international diversification leads to better environmental performance because international firms face a greater level of institutional pressure (e.g., Aguilera-Caracuel et al, 2012;Bansal, 2005;Forslid et al, 2018;Gómez-Bolaños et al, 2020;Symeou et al, 2018). As such, they succeed in satisfying such increased green demands due to their more global condition, which provides them with greater opportunities for the progressive acquisition of abilities and development of a more advanced environmental approach (Aguilera-Caracuel et al, 2012;Bansal, 2005), and allows them to achieve economies of scale to facilitate the adoption of cleaner technology (Forslid et al, 2018).…”

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Firm- and Country-Specific Advantages: Towards a Better Understanding of MNEs’ Environmental Performance in the International Arena

Ahmadova

García

Delgado‐Márquez

et al. 2022

Organization & Environment

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International diversification is predominantly assumed to have a mixed (either positive or negative) linear relationship with environmental performance in multinational enterprises (MNEs). Departing from this assumption, we use firm-specific advantages (FSA) and institutional theory to hypothesise that international diversification, due to recombination barriers, has a curvilinear U-shaped relationship with MNEs’ environmental performance. Because of their key roles as boosters of country-specific advantages (CSA), we also examine whether home country competitiveness and environmental levels moderate the proposed curvilinear relationship. Results from panel data of 298 MNEs between 2006 and 2017 from 21 different countries in 11 sectors provide support for the main curvilinear relationship and the moderating influence of home country competitiveness. Our study contributes to the international business literature by casting doubt on the widely held assumption that international diversification always carries either positive or negative effects on environmental records.

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“…During talent recruitment, the enterprises in need of internationalization usually adopt the order-based training mode: With the approval of the departments of labor and social security, higher vocational colleges organize skills trainings for specific jobs, which meet the limited demand and scattered posts of a single enterprise in need of internationalization [10][11][12][13][14][15]. The order-based talent training can greatly reduce the frequency and losses of personnel turnover faced by the enterprises in need of internationalization, and help these enterprises save the human, material, financial, and time resources invested in personnel recruitment, retainment, and cultivation.…”

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Quality Evaluation of Order-Based Talent Training in Internationalized Enterprises Based on Machine Learning

Yang¹,

Liu²,

Liu³

et al. 2022

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Internationalized enterprises conduct business and operation in more than one country. Their complex work processes raise a high demand for the work efficiency of employees. As a result, the enterprises in need of internationalization attach great importance to individual ability and quality when recruiting talents, and need to train talents based on orders. To improve the degree of specialization and employment quality of graduates, it is necessary to effectively evaluate the order-based talent training in internationalized enterprises, which helps to rationalize the training scheme and realize scientific education. However, there are very few studies that quantify the order-based talent training in internationalized enterprises. To fill the gap, this paper evaluates the quality of order-based talent training in internationalized enterprises based on machine learning. Section 2 summarizes the flow of order-based talent training in internationalized enterprises, and establishes an evaluation index system for the training quality, referring to the requirements of internationalized enterprises on the skills, cultural qualities, and professional ethics of talents. The feature data of the evaluation indies were preprocessed through principal component analysis (PCA), which reduces the computing load and increases the computing speed for the order-based talent training quality in internationalized enterprises. Section 3 optimizes the backpropagation (BP) neural network for prediction, and further reduces the dimensionality of the multi-dimensional data on the evaluation indices through locality preservation projection (LPP). The proposed model was proved effective through experiments.

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Internationalization and environmental innovation in the energy sector: Exploring the differences between multinational enterprises from emerging and developed countries

Cited by 17 publications

References 45 publications

Enhanced mitigation in nutrient surplus driven by multilateral crop trade patterns

Enhanced mitigation in nutrient surplus driven by multilateral crop trade patterns

Firm- and Country-Specific Advantages: Towards a Better Understanding of MNEs’ Environmental Performance in the International Arena

Quality Evaluation of Order-Based Talent Training in Internationalized Enterprises Based on Machine Learning

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