Grand challenges in developing countries: Context, relationships, and logics

The influence of government support over environmental protection investment on SMEs: R&D collaboration and financial aspects

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In the academic context, the interest in environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) has fueled a growing body of research and publications in recent years, fitting well within the discussion of grand challenges (Eisenhardt et al, 2016). These grand challenges have become fundamental concerns, with wide interest in management literature, and a worldwide framing in the United Nations 2030 Agenda and its 17 aspirational goals for sustainable development (Jamali et al, 2019(Jamali et al, , 2021. Bansal and Roth (2000) define ECSR as a set of initiatives (including changes to the firm's products, processes, and policies) aimed at mitigating a firm's impact on the natural environment to address the environmental challenges that the world is facing.

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“…Moreover, following Jamali and Carroll (2017), today, whether in developed or developing countries, the academic community and practitioners are more aware for businesses to pursue responsible activities, to positive affect the environment in which they operate. Nevertheless, despite this growing general awareness and the greater commitment of companies to sustainability and responsible management, grand challenges continue to constitute major global concerns (Jamali et al, 2021), and the environmental care is one of the most relevant.…”

Associations between Grand Challenges and Multinational Enterprises: A Bibliometric and Thematic Analysis

“…Researchers and practitioners in both developed and developing countries are more aware of normative and instrumental reasons for to conduct socially responsible activities and contribute in positive ways to the environment and societies in which they operate [39]. Non-Western situations provide additional layer of complication since theorization and empirical evidence now in use are primarily focused on developed country contexts [40]. Current research suggests that distinct institutional rules, socioeconomic circumstances, actor configurations, and challenge patterns have been brought about by the circumstances of rising nations [41,42].…”

Changes in corporate social responsibility activity during a pandemic: The case of COVID‐19

“…This study is important for several reasons. First, to date we know very little about how actual CSR practices change during extreme crises, or the potential ramifications of these changes (Jamali et al, 2021). Studies examining CSR during a crisis deal with CSR practices' value during an economic crisis (Lins et al, 2017) or focus specifically on country crises such as the Greek economic crisis (e.g., Magrizos et al, 2021).…”