Redesigning the business of development: the case of the World Economic Forum and global risk management

Sharma, Sameer; Soederberg, Susanne

doi:10.1080/09692290.2019.1640125

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“…Studies on the role of the company in achieving SDGs fall into two streams: Calabrese, Forte and Ghiron (2018); Pohlmann, Scavarda, Alves, and Korzenowski (2019); Sharma and Soederberg (2019); and Sullivan et al (2018) investigate it from strategic and management perspectives. Goralski and Tan (2020); Ike, Donovan, Topple, and Masli (2019); Naciti (2019); and Topple, Donovan, Masli, and Borgert (2017), on the other hand, analyze it through a governance lens.…”

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“…Goralski and Tan (2020); Ike, Donovan, Topple, and Masli (2019); Naciti (2019); and Topple, Donovan, Masli, and Borgert (2017), on the other hand, analyze it through a governance lens. Most of the studies adopt a qualitative approach: Calabrese et al (2018), Pohlmann et al (2019), and Goralski and Tan (2020) use case studies; Ike et al (2019) and Topple et al (2017) adopt semistructured interviews; Sharma and Soederberg (2019) present a conceptual paper; and Sullivan et al (2018) adopt a scoping methodology to review the literature. Naciti's (2019) is the only study investigating the topic through a quantitative methodology adopting secondary data.…”

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“…Most of the studies debate the full set of SDGs, with three exceptions: Goralski and Tan (2020) discuss a group of goals (2, Zero Hunger; 3, Good‐Health and Well‐Being; 6, Clean Water and Sanitation; 9, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; 10, Reduce Inequality; 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities; and 14, Life Below Water); Sharma and Soederberg (2019) investigate a single goal (11); and Sullivan et al (2018) find the integration of industrial ecology and business strategy is relevant for a mainly environmentally related group of goals (7, Affordable and Clean Energy; 9, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; 12, Responsible Consumption and Production; and 13, Climate Action), even if the review captures all the SDGs to varying degrees.…”

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Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

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The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an urgent call for action by all countries that provide a global framework for achieving global development while balancing social, economic, and environmental sustainability. SDGs are addressed to all actors in society, but both academia and professional recognize the particular importance of businesses. However, research is still needed to understand the role of companies as sustainable development agents. Relying on Scopus database consultation, the current research adopts an interdisciplinary systematic literature review to investigate, analyze, and present state-of-the-art academic literature on the role of businesses in tackling SDGs. The final sample comprises 101 papers published between 2015 and 2020. It provides evidence that the main topics discussed by scholars are related to aspects of strategy execution. Recognizing different streams that are currently unexplored-despite strictly related to strategic business activities and to the sustainable development as a whole-the study provides many insights for future research on business and SDGs.

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“…Currently, the WEF is one of the most significant case studies of private authority with a global impact, often depicted (and criticised) as an exclusive transnational elite club, with high media visibility and the agenda-setting power to institutionalise the views held within those confined circles power (e.g. Balanyá and et al, 2003;Burdick et al, 2009;Graz, 2003;Pigman, 2002;Sharma and Soederberg, 2020).…”

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Reframing sociotechnical imaginaries: The case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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2021

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In recent years, a Fourth Industrial Revolution emerged in public discourse as a narrative of exceptional societal disruption. At the core of this conceptual construct, led by the World Economic Forum, rests a sociotechnical imaginary of future essentialism, based on the revolutionary potential of digital, biological and physical innovations. This article addresses the lack of studies assessing the dynamics between the institutionalisation and the public performance of the Fourth Industrial Revolution concept through news media. We present the results of a quantitative content analysis of how the topic has been covered (frames, sources, tone) by the Portuguese national circulation press (2013–2020). This exploratory case study informs a proposal for an epistemic and methodological articulation between the theoretical frameworks of sociotechnical imaginaries and of media framing.

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“…117-122;Lobo-Guerrero, 2011, p. 11). Beyond the insurance industry, various risk and sustainable management techniques support the ability of capitalism to face the ecological crisis (Levy et al, 2016;Ponte, 2019;Sharma & Soederberg, 2020).…”

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Is the sky or the earth the limit? Risk, uncertainty and nature

Maechler

Graz

2020

Review of International Political Economy

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Dealing with uncertainty has become a matter of great concern for policy makers and scientific research in a world facing global, epochal and complex changes. But in essence, you cannot entirely predict the future. This article aims at conceptualizing the limits to anticipate the futureor what is often referred as the substitution of risk for uncertainty. In contrast to most theories examining risk and uncertainty, we start from the assumption that there are limits in the substitution of risk for uncertainty and that distinguishing between ontological and epistemic levels of analysis helps clarify such limits. The paper makes two arguments: first, most approaches see no ontological and/or epistemic limit in the substitution of risk for uncertainty; second, the pluralization of science is the only way to cope with limits in substituting risk for uncertainty. This second argument draws on the assumption that accounting for the uncertainty of the future depends on knowledge production processes able to overcome disciplinary boundaries and better include lay and expert knowledge. In times of great concerns regarding mitigation and adaptation to the ecological crisis, we illustrate our arguments with insights from global environmental governance.

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Redesigning the business of development: the case of the World Economic Forum and global risk management

Cited by 38 publications

References 55 publications

Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

Reframing sociotechnical imaginaries: The case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Is the sky or the earth the limit? Risk, uncertainty and nature

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