Garand, Denise (2020) THE ROLE OF THE SDGS AS WELL AS THEIR CO-BENEFITS AND TRADE-OFFS IN STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING. Master thesis, Sustainable Entrepreneurship (SE).
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Abstract
Our planet faces serious economic, social, and environmental challenges. Businesses recognize that environmental benefits can go hand in hand with achieving economic gains. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a framework to adapt a company's business practices to the world's most pressing challenges for sustainable development. Relationships between the SDGs can be interdependent, and reaching one SDG can contribute to another, but the relationship may not be applicable vice versa. The purpose of this qualitative research was to find out how companies deal with the co-benefits and trade-offs between SDGs in their strategic decision-making process. In this single case study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with employees from Evonik Industries, a chemical company from Germany. The results indicated that companies still struggle to implement the SDGs in their strategies. A company can counteract this problem by developing an innovative method to integrate the SDGs into their business practices, thus playing a pioneering role for other companies towards implementing the SDGs.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Name supervisor: | Eikelenboom, M. |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jun 2020 13:09 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jun 2020 13:09 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/28 |
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