The 17 chapters compiled here focus on multinational enterprises and sustainable development. Specialists in economics, management, business, and other areas in Europe, North America, and
Australia discuss new trends and concepts in international business and sustainable development, including whether international business needs new theories to include sustainable development
issues, the challenge of achieving greater economic prosperity while recognizing the limited capacity of the global ecosystem to absorb additional growth, whether foreign direct investment is
instrumental to industrial development, the BOP (bottom of the pyramid) approach, and global value chain theory. In the second part, they describe new corporate strategies and models for
sustainable development, such as partnering, human rights aspects, lobbying, and corporate social responsibility, while the third part focuses on new organizational forms and levels of
cooperation for sustainable development, including social infrastructure, stakeholder dynamics, and multiple embeddedness. The final section considers new public policies such as industrial and
innovation policies, those for developing countries, and multi-stakeholder regulation. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR
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