MNCs and Sustainable Business Practice: The Case of the Colombian and Peruvian Petroleum Industries

Moser, Titus

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(00)00094-2

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“…Events such as the ExxonValdez oil spill and Shell Nigeria's involvement in civil strife have drawn public indignation resulting in much greater engagement of international oil companies in community projects and collaborations. This in turn has indeed driven innovation (Moser 2001). Engagement with stakeholders, while difficult and ambiguous, often adds value, providing firms with new viewpoints, knowledge, and networks.…”

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Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

Westley

Olsson

Folke

et al. 2011

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This article explores the links between agency, institutions, and innovation in navigating shifts and largescale transformations toward global sustainability. Our central question is whether social and technical innovations can reverse the trends that are challenging critical thresholds and creating tipping points in the earth system, and if not, what conditions are necessary to escape the current lock-in. Large-scale transformations in information technology, nano-and biotechnology, and new energy systems have the potential to significantly improve our lives; but if, in framing them, our globalized society fails to consider the capacity of the biosphere, there is a risk that unsustainable development pathways may be reinforced. Current institutional arrangements, including the lack of incentives for the private sector to innovate for sustainability, and the lags inherent in the path dependent nature of innovation, contribute to lock-in, as does our incapacity to easily grasp the interactions implicit in complex problems, referred to here as the ingenuity gap. Nonetheless, promising social and technical innovations with potential to change unsustainable trajectories need to be nurtured and connected to broad institutional resources and responses. In parallel, institutional entrepreneurs can work to reduce the resilience of dominant institutional systems and position viable shadow alternatives and niche regimes.

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Section: The Ingenuity Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

Westley

Olsson

Folke

et al. 2011

AMBIO

768

476

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“…In particular, market positioning, access to new markets (Burlingame and Young, 1996;Googins and Rochlin, 2000;Warner and Sullivan, 2004), and the need for gaining and maintaining the ''license to operate'' (Loza, 2004;Moser, 2001) are those that drive the business sector to collaborate. In fact, in face of growing demand for company responsibility and engagement in social and environmental issues, CSSPs facilitate corporate social responsibility implementation (Seitanidi and Crane, 2009), fostering legitimacy and trust accumulation (Seitanidi, 2007), thus improving company's ability to manage stakeholder relationships.…”

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confidence: 99%

Institutional Antecedents of Partnering for Social Change: How Institutional Logics Shape Cross-Sector Social Partnerships

2010

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“…In others words, host communities and government have important roles to play in ensuring poverty reduction. Second, it accepts Moser's (2001) and Warhurst and Mitchell's (2000) assertions that the optimization of the potential positive social, economic and environmental impact of crude oil production, and the identification and minimization of corresponding negative impacts are the most important contributions that oil TNCs can make to SCD. Each of the oil TNCs' CDP will be assessed on the basis of the following criteria (see Table I) identified by systematically categorizing the different aspects of poverty into affirmative and negative injunction duties.…”

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confidence: 99%