Think Global, Act Local? Fortune 500 Business Strategies for Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11)
通过分析财富500强企业的可持续发展报告,归纳出四种企业为可持续发展目标11(可持续城市与社区)做贡献的战略,并构建矩阵揭示其本地与全球思维差异。
ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly focusing on cities and local communities. Building upon a thematic analysis of Fortune 500 sustainability reports and related data, the study reveals four business strategies towards contextualizing and contributing to the underexplored SDG 11: reducing their own negative impact, outsourcing community support, mobilizing context‐relevant competences, and reshaping the community fabric. Importantly, I then synthesize the findings into a matrix and unpack how each of the four strategies represents a distinctive way of business thinking and acting sustainably (local/global), providing theoretical and practical implications for SDG contextualization and the achievement of SDG 11.