Sustainable Development

Meadowcroft, James

doi:10.4135/9781446200964.n34

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“…Governance has an important role in implementing sustainable development. According to Meadowcroft (2011, p. 536), “sustainable development is really about governance” and flawed governance often contributes to irresponsibility and unsustainable consequences. Traditional governance mechanisms – hierarchical, network, market governance – were designed for managing simple and stable environmental conditions (see Figure 1).…”

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Multi-stakeholder partnerships: a catalyst to achieve sustainable development goals

Eweje

Sajjad

Nath

et al. 2020

MIP

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to critically examine the concept of multi-stakeholder partnerships in relation to the United Nations' sustainable development goals and propose a renewed multi-stakeholder partnerships framework that enables the implementation of the sustainable development goals.Design/methodology/approachThis paper employs an integrative review methodology to assess, critique and synthesize the extant literature on the multi-stakeholder partnerships and sustainable development goals.FindingsWe propose a conceptual framework of multi-stakeholder partnerships to support the sustainable development goals implementation. Thus, this paper contributes to the conceptual understanding of the multi-stakeholder partnerships mechanism that enhances the sustainable development goals implementation.Research limitations/implicationsWe propose a conceptual framework of multi-stakeholder partnerships to support the sustainable development goals implementation. Thus, this paper contributes to the conceptual understanding of the multi-stakeholder partnerships mechanism that enhances the sustainable development goals implementation.Originality/valueWe contend that this is one of the few early papers that contributes to the conceptual development of a collaborative multi-stakeholder partnerships paradigm by which such partnerships are formed and institutionalized among multiple interacting sectors to achieve the sustainable development goals.

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Section: Conventional Partnerships Versus Emergent Collaborative Partnershipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-stakeholder partnerships: a catalyst to achieve sustainable development goals

Eweje

Sajjad

Nath

et al. 2020

MIP

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“…According to Meadowcroft (2011, p. 536), “sustainable development is really about governance” and flawed governance often contributes to irresponsibility and unsustainable consequences. According to Bernstein et al (2014, p. 2), “successful governance requires not only well-formulated SDGs, but coherent institutional arrangements to provide necessary leadership and legitimacy, coordination and review mechanisms, expertise and capacity-building, and material resources to aid implementation.” According to IIRC (2013, p. 13), “Those charged with governance are responsible for creating an appropriate oversight structure to support the ability of the organization to create value.”…”

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The relationship between corporate governance mechanisms and integrated reporting practices and their impact on sustainable development goals: evidence from South Africa

Ahmed

2023

MEDAR

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Purpose The first purpose of this paper is to investigate whether corporate governance mechanisms, in particular the characteristics of the board, audit committee and risk management committee, are associated with the level of disclosure in integrated reports of South African listed firms. The second purpose of this paper is to analyze how integrated reporting (IR) affects the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a mixed methods approach. First, a multiple regression analysis is used to estimate the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on IR practices of a sample of South African listed firms during the period between 2019 and 2021. Using the content analysis method to measure the level of IR, disclosures were measured using a disclosure index consisting of 60 information items developed from the IIRC framework and previous studies. Second, based on a database containing 33 articles in the Meditari Accountancy Research journal with a publication date from 2013 to 2021, a systematic review of the academic literature focusing on IR is conducted to analyze how IR influences SDGs. Findings The results indicate that board size, board independence and risk management committee independence have a positive effect on IR practices. However, board expertise, board activity, audit committee independence, audit committee size, audit committee expertise, audit committee meetings, risk management committee expertise, risk management committee meetings, risk management committee size and the auditor type are negatively related to IR practices. The results also indicate that IR has an important role in achieving SDGs by relying on integrated thinking that integrates sustainability into the enterprise’s strategy and helps the integration of capitals. In addition, sustainable business models create long-term values. Research limitations/implications This study was limited to a sample size of 75 firms, which is country-specific; however, it sets the tone for future empirical research on the subject matter. This study provides an avenue for future research in the area of corporate governance and IR practices in other emerging countries, especially other African countries. Practical implications This study provides useful insights for managers and policymakers to better understand which corporate governance mechanisms can best encourage a company to improve IR practices. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this study is, perhaps, the first to examine the effect of risk management committee characteristics on IR practices. This study provides new insight into the contribution of accounting research toward the achievement of SDGs.

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“…For this purpose, the paper identified 73 Scopus-listed journals that included the words 'accounting', 'sustainability', 'governance', and 'accountability' in their title for the period January 2001-August 2018. Dividing accounting research publications into sustainability governance and non-sustainability governance gave rise to many problems, particularly given the holistic and multifaceted nature of the both sustainability and governance terms (Meadowcroft 2011). As Thomson (2014) indicates, most accounting research could be construed to be concerned with the impact of sustainability and, it could be argued, very often with a relationship with governance.…”

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Accounting for Sustainability Governance: The Enabling Role of Social and Environmental Accountability Research

Rinaldi

2019

Social and Environmental Accountability Journal

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Sustainable Development

Cited by 21 publications

References 15 publications

Multi-stakeholder partnerships: a catalyst to achieve sustainable development goals

Multi-stakeholder partnerships: a catalyst to achieve sustainable development goals

The relationship between corporate governance mechanisms and integrated reporting practices and their impact on sustainable development goals: evidence from South Africa

Accounting for Sustainability Governance: The Enabling Role of Social and Environmental Accountability Research

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