A perspective on multinational enterprises and climate change: Learning from “an inconvenient truth”?

By Ans Kolk, J. Pinkse. 2008

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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International Business, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development (2010, background): “…MNEs’ CSR activities are seen as becoming increasingly strategic, in the sense that they affect the core business of the firm and its growth, profitability and survival (Kolk & Pinkse, 2008; Verbeke, 2009), with CSR as a potential source of competitive advantage (Porter & Kramer, 2006).”
Corporate Responses in an Emerging Climate Regime: The Institutionalization and Commensuration of Carbon Disclosure (2008, background): “This applies particularly to those sectors for which the issue is highly salient because they are most confronted with it, and those specialized in goods or services that can help firms to respond or mitigate their impacts (cf. Kolk and Pinkse, 2008).”
Strategic choices for renewable energy investment: Conceptual framework and opportunities for further research (2012, background): “The successful exploitation of market opportunities in this field requires the development of new competences and resources compared to those traditionally held by oil and gas firms (Kolk and Pinkse, 2008).”
Social Movements as Catalysts for Corporate Social Innovation: Environmental Activism and the Adoption of Green Information Systems (2019, positive): “Increasingly, firms are extending across the value chain and pushing their suppliers (and sometimes downstream buyers) to engage in carbon accounting for product labeling, reporting, and cost control purposes (Hoffman & Ventresca, 1999; Kolk & Pinkse, 2008).”
Multinational Enterprises and the Sustainable Development Goals: What Do We Know and How to Proceed? (2017, neutral): “Kolk and Pinkse (2008) show how firms can tackle issues such as climate change and develop advantages specific to “green” firms.”
An Investigation of Voluntary Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting in a Market Governance System: Australian Evidence (2011, background): “BHP Billiton recognises the challenging business risks presented by climate change and have begun addressing climate change from a business perspective to enhance their future survival and growth (Kolk and Pinkse, 2008).”
Challenges and trade-offs in corporate innovation for climate change (2010, neutral): “Especially when looked at from the perspective of multinational enterprises, which are located in multiple countries with a variety of policy approaches and involving a multitude of actors, some of the trade-offs in the field of climate-related innovation will emerge (Kolk and Pinkse, 2008).”
Sustainable business model adoption among S&P 500 firms: A longitudinal content analysis study (2018, background): “…to deal with the inconsistencies of national policies, cultural customs, and management practices, making it hard to develop strategies and business models that meet the (sometimes conflicting) needs of various stakeholders (Andersson et al., 2005; Kolk & Pinkse, 2008; Escobar & Vredenburg, 2011).”
The Social Responsibility of International Business: From Ethics and the Environment to CSR and Sustainable Development (2016, neutral): “Standard divergence, policy harmonization, level-playing fields and arbitrage are important to MNEs (e.g. Ghemawat, 2007; Kolk & Pinkse, 2008; Regnér & Edman, 2014; Verbeke, 2009).”
Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action (2022, background): “The negative effects of climate change have attracted significant attention from the world ’ s top leaders, industry, media, and policymakers (Banerjee, 2001; Kolk & Pinkse, 2008; Mees, Uittenbroek, Hegger, & Driessen, 2019).”