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Responsible Business and SDGs

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 13140

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Khelifa Mazouz

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Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3XQ, UK
Interests: corporate finance (particularly initial public offering); stock market volatility and liquidity; stock market efficiency and anomalies
Prof. Sabur Mollah

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Guest Editor
Sheffield University Management School, the University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 1FL, United Kingdom
Interests: corporate governance; responsible business and SDGs
Prof. Dr. Saeed Akbar

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School of Management, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1SR, UK
Interests: performance measurement; corporate governance; risk management; sustainability

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The special issue is aiming to investigate how the corporate sector anchors, embeds, engages, and reports sustainability practices for the sake of implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030. By focusing on the role of the corporate sector, the Special Issue will be able to advance the debates on the overarching roles of the corporate sector in SDGs implementation.

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 are phenomenal attempts to address the major global challenges. The role of the corporate world has become more important than even before in relation to adopting of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), not only because of the $12 trillion of potential growth linked to the achievement of the SDGs but also due to their social and environmental responsibility. In addition, the corporate world is expected to do more than just commit to the adoption of SDGs in their business practices due to the pressure from the heads of states from 193 countries who have already committed to adopting and delivering SDGs for the 2030 goal in their countries. To this end, responsible business practices may help companies to navigate and contribute to the SDGs towards the 2030 horizon goal to create a better world for everybody. In particular, corporations may help to implement SDGs in many ways, including anchoring SDGs within business practices, embedding sustainability across different functions, enganging in partnership, and reporting sustaibility practices. The Special Issue thefeore aims to explore the issues around responsible business practices by the corporate sector to implement SDGs. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  1. Sustainability and climate change
  2. Sustainability reporting (carbon reporting and CSR reporting)
  3. Inclusion in the workplace and employee welfare
  4. Outsourcing CO2 emission in the developing countries
  5. Responsible business and climate finance

Prof. Khelifa Mazouz
Prof. Sabur Mollah
Prof. Saeed Akbar
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • responsible business
  • sustainability practices
  • SDGs

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The Role of the Public University of Navarre in Achieving the 1st SDG for the End of Poverty
by Lucía Martínez-Virto and Begoña Pérez-Eransus
Sustainability 2021, 13(17), 9795; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179795 - 31 Aug 2021
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The end of poverty is the first of the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations. Universities are strategic spaces for promoting the SDGs, from training, research, and outreach capacity to implementing sustainable actions, helping to reduce inequalities and, significantly, promoting sustainable [...] Read more.
The end of poverty is the first of the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations. Universities are strategic spaces for promoting the SDGs, from training, research, and outreach capacity to implementing sustainable actions, helping to reduce inequalities and, significantly, promoting sustainable cities and communities. This article aims to answer how the Public University of Navarre contributes to promoting the 1st SDG, what mechanisms for the end of poverty endorses in its territory, and what can we learn from these experiences. To this end, a case study has been carried out based on qualitative techniques. This work analyzes the strategies implemented, such as incorporating social clauses for responsible recruiting, the development of applied research and teaching or network participation. From this example, some engaging lessons will be extracted to address this issue in other contexts, promoting their consolidation and identifying the obstacles that may hinder their spread. Full article
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Cultivating Support for the Sustainable Development Goals, Green Strategy and Human Resource Management Practices in Future Business Leaders: The Role of Individual Differences and Academic Training
by James W. Westerman, Lubna Nafees and Jennifer Westerman
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6569; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126569 - 9 Jun 2021
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How we effectively train our future business leaders is critical to the success of the implementation of the SDGs. Higher education will play a central role in this effort. This research examines business student support for environmentally oriented organizational strategy (“green strategy”) and [...] Read more.
How we effectively train our future business leaders is critical to the success of the implementation of the SDGs. Higher education will play a central role in this effort. This research examines business student support for environmentally oriented organizational strategy (“green strategy”) and human resource management policies and practices (“green hrm”) in comparison with sustainable development (SD) students to explore the barriers facing the education of our future business leaders on the SDGs. We explore whether student political orientation, gender, or authoritarianism are associated with different levels of support within each discipline. We also examine whether business students prioritize the same UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as SD students. Results (n = 281) indicate that business students (particularly those who are male, conservative, or authoritarian) are less supportive of green strategy and green HR than SD students. However, business student support of prosperity/people-oriented SDGs offers a potential avenue for progress. Full article
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The Private Sector as a Partner for SDG 6-Related Issues in Megacities: Opportunities and Challenges in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
by Maria Inês Paes Ferreira, Vicente de Paulo Santos de Oliveira, Graham Sakaki and Pamela Shaw
Sustainability 2022, 14(3), 1597; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031597 - 29 Jan 2022
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This article reviews recent studies that address water sustainable management opportunities and challenges in megacities around the world, with an emphasis on the case of Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region, one of the two megacities in Brazil. With reference to recent debates on [...] Read more.
This article reviews recent studies that address water sustainable management opportunities and challenges in megacities around the world, with an emphasis on the case of Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region, one of the two megacities in Brazil. With reference to recent debates on water, megacities, and the climate crisis, as well as UN Water and Global Report Initiative documents, we focused on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation for All. The new Brazilian sanitation legal framework regulates public–private partnerships. In this context, the manuscript discusses the main question concerning water, sanitation, and hygiene that arises in the Brazilian case study: is universality possible in profit-oriented models? Through the current technical and academic literature consulted, the paper compares initiatives involving multiple stakeholder governance models that depend on private resources to implement universal access to drinking water, sanitation, and water-related extreme event controls, pointing out alternatives that can help to achieve the targets of SDG. Validation by key informants supports the synthesis of the reviewed documents, and the findings illustrate that concerted public efforts together with market mechanisms can help to overcome challenges and surpass the profit-oriented logics of private companies to achieve access to healthy and safe water, adequate sanitation, and improved hygiene, especially for vulnerable populations. This finding has transferability to other megacities in emerging countries that are facing public–private partnership debates on the provision of clean water and sanitation for all. Full article
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