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Beyond COVID-19: Applying “SDG logics” for resilient transformations

Jan Anton van Zanten and Rob van Tulder (rtulder@rsm.nl)
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Jan Anton van Zanten: Robeco Institutional Asset Management
Rob van Tulder: RSM Erasmus University

Journal of International Business Policy, 2020, vol. 3, issue 4, No 9, 464 pages

Abstract: Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a realistic approach to navigate societies through and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the SDG agenda is not without flaws. Even before the pandemic, progress towards achieving the SDGs has been too slow. COVID-19 presents a stress test for the SDG approach. The SDG agenda provides three ‘logics’ that could help transform towards sustainable societies: (1) a governance logic that sets goals, adopts policies, and tracks progress to steer impacts; (2) a systems (nexus) logic that manages SDG interactions; and (3) a strategic logic that enables (micro-level) companies to develop strategies that impact (macro-level) policy goals. We discuss key hurdles that each of these SDG logics face. Transforming towards sustainable societies beyond COVID-19 requires that multinational enterprises and policymakers (better) apply these logics, and that they address operational challenges to overcome flaws in the present approach to the SDGs.

Keywords: COVID-19; sustainable development goals (SDGs); governance; corporate sustainability; resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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