Local stakeholders and local legitimacy: MNEs' social strategies in emerging economies

Reimann, Felix; Ehrgott, Matthias; Kaufmann, Lutz; Carter, Craig R.

doi:10.1016/j.intman.2011.06.002

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“…The main path consists of 15 articles that play a major role in the development of this field, which are labelled with the first author's surname and publication year. There are two sources (Browning and Zabriskie 1983;Rudelius and Buchholz 1979) and 5 sinks (Gimenez and Tachizawa 2012;Hoejmose et al 2013;Lee et al 2013;Reimann et al 2012;Reuter et al 2012). They are depicted as black and blank nodes, respectively.…”

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Ethical Sourcing: An Analysis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research

2016

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The purpose of this study is to present a rigorous, focused review on how this field of ethical sourcing research has grown and evolved over the decades, providing implications for future research. We combine two research methodologies in this study: a systematic literature review and a citation network analysis. The former is used as a scientific tool to select the most relevant ethical sourcing articles, while the latter is then applied as a research technique to analyse these selected articles. Such a combined approach allows for a rigorous investigation into this field of research in a more scientific and objective way. Based on this approach, we identify (1) distinctive features of ethical sourcing studies such as growth trends and content issues; (2) important articles that have played a significant role in developing this field; (3) evolutionary paths that show how its knowledge has been created and transferred; (4) emerging trends that have received growing attention in the recent literature; (5) main research areas that underlie the entire ethical sourcing studies; and (6) major implications that need to be pursued in future research. The results of this study provide not only the current status of the literature but also the patterns of evolution in this field of research, thus contributing to the existing literature.

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Section: Results Of Network Analysis Citation Networkmentioning

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Ethical Sourcing: An Analysis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research

2016

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“…Moreover, not all external stakeholders have knowledge about the practices inside firms, favoring the process of decoupling (Crilly et al, 2012). In the context of poorer institutional controls, stakeholder pressure may not offer clear sanctions and therefore may not always be effective in emerging economies Recent studies have demonstrated positive influence of customers and the competitive environment on firms' practices in emerging economies (Abreu, Castro, Soares, & Silva, 2012;Reimann, Ehrgott, Kaufmann, & Carter, 2012). Assuming that the positive influence can be extended to environmental practices, we hypothesize the effect of customers, competitors and environmental organizations on environmental management practices as follows: H3: Stakeholder pressure has a positive influence on the environmental management practices of firms.…”

Section: Stakeholders' Demandmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The relevance of environmental drivers is contingent on factors such as the size of the firm, exposure to international markets and industry sector (González-Benito & González-Benito, 2006; Reimann et al, 2012). Larger firms usually have higher public exposure and more resources to invest in environmental management (González-Benito & González-Benito, 2006).…”

Section: Stakeholders' Demandmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Drivers of environmental management in the Brazilian context

Berardi

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2015

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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The demand for improved environmental practices inside firms has increased around the world. However, in the process of implementation of environmental management, policy may be decoupled from practice, generating doubts about its effectiveness. This study investigates an overlooked middle step in the environmental management process, analyzing the strength of the main environmental drivers in improving environmental practices inside firms. We developed a set of hypotheses about the influence regulation, voluntary norms and stakeholder pressure have upon environmental management practices, considering the institutional context and different enforcement of these drivers. We use a cross-sectional survey of 150 Brazilian firms to gather information about environmental management and test our hypotheses in a Structural Equation Model. The findings confirm the importance of command and control instruments as well as stakeholder pressure in promoting better environmental practices inside firms. Yet, the results demonstrate that voluntary norms did not influence management practices even though they were perceived as a market opportunity.

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“…For example, according to Reimann et al (2012) employees and the local governments are among the forces that drive firms to push for high standards in their working conditions and to engage in developing the local community.…”

Section: Global Business Environmentmentioning

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Stakeholders of multinational companies: the case of Korean multinational companies in Brazil

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The objective of this study is to investigate the difference between stakeholders' characteristics in Brazil and in Korea which are perceived by managers of Korean MNCs (This study has been conducted based on data collected from South Korean companies so whenever "Korea" and "Korean" are mentioned, they should be interpreted as relating to South Korea.) In international business, the multinational environment has become challenging to MNCs, which stem from the multidimensional environments of the countries, such as macroeconomic, cultural, political and legal environments, among others. That is, managing stakeholders in a different environment has become influential to managerial performance of MNCs as well. Thus, in order to identify the main stakeholders and issues related to them as management strategic focus, the stakeholder's characteristics of Brazil and Korea were compared and empirically approached. The data collection was done through indepth interviews with the Korean managers of several Korean multinational companies operating in Brazil, who belong to the department that deals with local stakeholders either directly or indirectly in the host country. According to the data analysis, among the ten categories of stakeholders identified by Clarkson, the Korean companies are mainly interacting with eight stakeholders: employee, financial institution, customer, supplier, government, trade association, labor union and media, and there is effectively not only no interaction with the other two categories of NGO and community in Brazil but also no difference in their characteristics between Korea and Brazil. In reference to the distinct characteristics of the local stakeholders compared to the stakeholders in Korea, five characteristics were identified with employees, three with governments, three with financial institutions, two with customers, two with suppliers and one with trade associations, but no difference was identified with media. Managers perceived that all kinds of stakeholders are more unmanageable in Brazil than in Korea, excepting the customers. It was shown that there is a bigger difference of that manageability with employees, suppliers, financial institutions and trade associations and less difference with governments, labor unions and media, in this particular order. Analyzing the difference of the stakeholder's influence between the two countries, it was established that there is no difference in customers, labor unions and trade associations, there is a little difference in financial institutions and suppliers, and a bigger difference in governments and media. It is a difficult situation to find not only the study that compares the characteristics of the stakeholders but also the comparative study that deals with specific countries' cases. The result of this comparison among the characteristics can help managers grasp the causes and existing strategies analyzed for the problems, as well as effectively establish strategies to manage the stakeholders. However, because of the limitatio...

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Local stakeholders and local legitimacy: MNEs' social strategies in emerging economies

Cited by 156 publications

References 105 publications

Ethical Sourcing: An Analysis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research

Ethical Sourcing: An Analysis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research

Drivers of environmental management in the Brazilian context

Stakeholders of multinational companies: the case of Korean multinational companies in Brazil

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