The Long-Term Sustenance of Sustainability Practices in MNCs: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective of the Role of R&D and Internationalization

被引:130
作者
Chakrabarty, Subrata [1 ]
Wang, Liang [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nebraska, Coll Business Adm, Dept Management, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
[2] Univ Western Ontario, Richard Ivey Sch Business, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
关键词
Corporate social responsibility; Sustainability practices; R&D; Innovation; Multinational; Internationalization; Dynamic capabilities; Resource-based view; PERFORMANCE;
D O I
10.1007/s10551-012-1422-3
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
020101 [政治经济学];
摘要
What allows MNCs to maintain their sustainability practices over the long-term? This is an important but under-examined question. To address this question, we investigate both the development and sustenance of sustainability practices. We use the dynamic capabilities perspective, rooted in resource-based view literature, as the theoretical basis. We argue that MNCs that simultaneously pursue both higher R&D intensity and higher internationalization are more capable of developing and maintaining sustainability practices. We test our hypotheses using longitudinal panel data from 1989 to 2009. Results suggest that MNCs that have a combination of both high R&D intensity and high internationalization are (i) likely to develop more sustainability practices and (ii) are likely to maintain more of those practices over a long-term. As a corollary, MNCs that have a combination of both low R&D and low internationalization usually (i) end up developing little or no sustainability practices and (ii) find it difficult to sustain whatever little sustainability practices they might have developed.
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页数:13
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