Corporate environmental responsiveness: a bibliometric and content analysis

Bhatt, Y. C.; Ghuman, Karminder

doi:10.1007/s11301-022-00275-8

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“…The majority of industries and markets where businesses operate are based on the dominant logic of short-term profit maximization rather than functioning within safe, long-term planetary boundaries (Wright and Nyberg 2017). Thus, this constrains companies from investing too many resources towards proactive environmental strategies and management behavior (Bhatt and Ghuman 2022), which also includes barriers for climate change action (Okereke 2007). This highlights the issue of organizational inaction to climate change, defined as "the failure to reduce absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to a lack of effective measures" (Slawinski et al 2017, p. 254).…”

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Beyond conventional corporate responses to climate change towards deep decarbonization: a systematic literature review

2023

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Over the past 20 years, the literature on corporate responses to climate change has offered a vast array of theoretical and practical insights into organizational efforts to reduce business-related carbon emissions. However, it remains unclear whether these efforts will result in significant reductions of carbon emissions. Presently, it becomes crucial to understand, if, why, and how companies can effectively respond to the current challenges of deep decarbonization, defined as the process of emission reduction down to, or close to, zero to limit global warming. By means of a systematic literature review with 370 identified papers, we are able to categorize the main findings of the literature according to the four most common areas of investigation, including drivers, actions, barriers, and facilitators. Additionally, we conduct a comparative analysis of the literature along these four areas of investigation according to two categories: conventional responses and deep decarbonization responses. The results show that the literature on conventional responses to climate change (n = 321) extensively covers all four areas of investigation; however, it only touches on the descriptive (i.e., ‘what’) aspects of decarbonization. The recent and emerging literature on deep decarbonization responses (n = 49) provides novel insights on the prescriptive (i.e., ‘why’ and ‘how’) aspects of deep decarbonization. However, this literature is restricted to mostly regional and industrial foci, and it does not connect drivers, barriers, and facilitators in a systematic way. Thus, we highlight key implications for future research and practice in order to effectively address corporate deep decarbonization.

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Beyond conventional corporate responses to climate change towards deep decarbonization: a systematic literature review

2023

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“…We therefore recommend researching the opposite to enablers since understanding the barriers will likely lead to more thorough and accurate information on the topic. Detecting the consequences of SDG implementation for firms, both in the short and the long terms, may also be an interesting line, focusing on the effect on corporate environmental responsiveness (Bhatt & Ghuman 2022 ) and the positive and negative effects of the introduction of the goals and their subsequent alignment to business practices. Some examples to this effect are employee satisfaction, talent retention, better financial results, more customer engagement and customer relationship management (Müller 2014 ), and higher reputation, among others.…”

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Mapping enablers for SDG implementation in the private sector: a systematic literature review and research agenda

2023

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Academics and practitioners alike recognize the important role of businesses in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, research is still needed to understand strategies that can aid the private sector in this regard. The objective of the current paper is twofold. First, it provides an interdisciplinary systematic literature review of 96 papers published between 2015 and 2022 to analyse the state-of-the-art of the academic literature on the enablers that can facilitate SDG implementation in businesses. The analysis provides evidence that enablers can be categorized depending on whether they are external to the company (industry, tools, and education), internal to the company (company characteristics, governance, and adoption of innovation and technology), or a combination of both (Public–Private Partnerships). Second, it provides a specific research agenda on each enabler, offering relevant recommendations for academics, practitioners and policy makers to work simultaneously to achieve the UN’s 2030 Agenda.

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“…Research on sustainability, inequality, digitalization, and management for non-profits will receive greater attention in MRQ as the journal moves forward. Recent MRQ articles on climate change and organizations (Díaz Tautiva et al 2022), (corporate) environmental sustainability and performance (Bhatt and Ghuman 2022;Kwarto et al 2022), corporate social responsibility (Rojas Molina et al 2022;Frerichs and Teichert 2021), non-profits (Nordin et al 2022) social enterprises (Armstrong and Grobbelaar 2022), supply chain management (Durugbo and Al-Balushi 2022) and entrepreneurship (Kuckertz and Brändle 2022) in crises show the way forward. We intend to publish more of such empirically grounded and practically relevant research.…”

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Looking back to look ahead: MRQ's past five years of evidence-based management research in numbers

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2022

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The literature base of business and management research is constantly growing and becoming more complex. Hence, the need for an evidence-focused review journal such as Management Review Quarterly (MRQ) is also growing. Literature reviews, meta-analyses, replications, and bibliographic studies help to consolidate and integrate the field's evidence and knowledge and set the agenda for future research. MRQ has found its place in the management field and has seen a constant rise in the number of submissions and impact. This editorial aims to take stock. It looks back to look ahead by reflecting on the number of submissions, the journal's scope in terms of international coverage, methods, and topics, and its impact over the last five years. The editorial closes with an outlook for the next five years and discusses the uniqueness of MRQ as an evidence-focused review journal.

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Corporate environmental responsiveness: a bibliometric and content analysis

Cited by 6 publications

References 151 publications

Beyond conventional corporate responses to climate change towards deep decarbonization: a systematic literature review

Beyond conventional corporate responses to climate change towards deep decarbonization: a systematic literature review

Mapping enablers for SDG implementation in the private sector: a systematic literature review and research agenda

Looking back to look ahead: MRQ's past five years of evidence-based management research in numbers

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