Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Performance in the Latin American Context
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 3408
Special Issue Editors
Interests: CSR; corporate sustainability; social accounting; environmental and social performance
Interests: CSR; sustainability reporting; sustainability performance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The impact of companies on the environment is a key factor for achieving the sustainability of the planet, and in recent years, the commitments derived from the principles and objectives of the UN SDGs. This is the reason for the exponential scientific production in corporate sustainability and specifically in understanding the impact that business activity has on the environment.
However, the majority of the literature has studied the relationship between business behavior and its environmental performance in what we call Western economies, although in recent years, the study has also been extended to other geographical areas, such as so-called emerging countries. The proliferation of these new studies lies in the theoretical justification (neo-institutional theory, among others) that justify the impact of the institutional factors of the countries on the behavior of companies, among which aspects the models of state government, culture, the structuring of markets, or any formal and informal contracts existing between the different social, political, and economic agents belonging to these societies.
This is the reason this call for papers aims to examine the relationship between corporate sustainability and environmental performance in a cultural context that is very rich in institutional characteristics: the Latin American world. In this sense, although there are academic works that analyses corporate behavior in the Latin American context, we believe that it needs a greater and deeper scientific analysis, which will allow us to better understand these processes and their impact on the relationship between sustainability and business. With this objective in mind, the call for papers focuses on different methodologies that allow us to contribute to the knowledge of this relationship, which is the object of study in a very relevant area, especially due to the great environmental wealth that has been severely punished in recent years. The call for papers is addressed to conceptual works, literature reviews, empirical data analyses, as well as qualitative works. We are interested in the following areas of study:
- Papers related to corporate governance and its impact on environmental performance;
- Definition and establishment of strategies to achieve better environmental performance;
- Corporate disclosure or reporting of environmental aspects;
- Models to understand and study the evaluation of the environmental performance of companies;
- Development of sustainable supply chain policies and their impact on the environment;
- Implementation of policies related to the circular economy.
Prof. Dr. Igor Álvarez Etxeberria
Prof. Dr. Julio Cesar Hernandez Pajarez
Prof. Luis Jara Sarrúa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- corporate sustainability
- environmental performance
- environmental indicators
- CSR
- circular economy
- institutional context and effects
