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- Title
Examination of sustainability goals: A comparative study of U.S. and Indian firms.
- Authors
Palmer, Timothy B.; Phadke, Suniti; Nair, Malini V.; Flanagan, David J.
- Abstract
Considerable attention has focused on tactics firms use when building their sustainability platforms. Less is known, however, about how sustainability goal setting varies globally, especially in developing economies. Accordingly, we examined sustainability goals of 21 of the 50 largest Indian firms and compared them with similar data from a published study that examined 22 of the 50 largest U.S. firms. In total, 679 sustainability goals were analyzed using a triple bottom line framework. We found U.S. firms set more sustainability goals than Indian firms. Firms from both samples set similar numbers of people goals but U.S. firms set more diversity goals. Indian firms were more inclined to set economic and community development goals. We also detected differences across the samples in planet goals associated with emissions and water. Especially significant, Indian firms were much more likely than U.S. firms to specify profit goals. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
- Subjects
INDIA; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER sampling; GOAL (Psychology); COMPARATIVE studies
- Publication
Journal of Management & Organization, 2022, Vol 28, Issue 4, p827
- ISSN
1833-3672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/jmo.2019.9