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Subrata Chakrabarty

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2012

Sustainability

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The Long-Term Sustenance Of Sustainability Practices In Mncs: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective Of The Role Of R&D And Internationalization, Subrata Chakrabarty, Liang(Lucas) Wang Dec 2011

The Long-Term Sustenance Of Sustainability Practices In Mncs: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective Of The Role Of R&D And Internationalization, Subrata Chakrabarty, Liang(Lucas) Wang

Subrata Chakrabarty

What allows MNCs to maintain their sustainability practices over the long term? This is an important but under-examined question. To address this question, we investigate both the development and sustenance of sustainability practices. We use the dynamic capabilities perspective, rooted in resource-based view literature, as the theoretical basis. We argue that MNCs that simultaneously pursue both higher R&D intensity and higher internationalization are more capable of developing and maintaining sustainability practices. We test our hypotheses using longitudinal panel data from 1989 to 2009. Results suggest that MNCs that have a combination of both high R&D intensity and high internationalization are …