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Firms today are facing the worldwide challenge of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out in the United Nations’ Agenda 2030. This paper analyzes two factors that can determinate corporate engagement with the 17 SDGs: (i) the country-level of SDG achievement in the home country; and (ii) the firm’s internationalization. To understand the impact of these factors on firms’ decisions to engage with and adopt a certain number of these global objectives, we develop our hypotheses on the basis of the institutional theory and theories of internationalization. The empirical analysis is based on a sample of 1071 multinational enterprises for the period from 2018 to 2023. The results allow us to conclude that the country-level of SDG achievement and the firms’ internationalization level and scope are all positively related to a high number of adopted SDGs. We found interesting differences when we consider the different internationalization strategies, such as the establishment of foreign subsidiaries and the international sourcing through foreign suppliers. However, the combined effect of external and internal factors does not always turn into positive additive outcomes. Our findings highlight the necessity to re-evaluate the recommendations provided to policymakers and managers up until now.

Tal y como se constata en la literatura y en la práctica empresarial, las empresas turísticas integran un sector clave a nivel global porque favorece el crecimiento económico y el desarrollo de los países. No obstante, debido a la competencia y a las exigencias de los consumidores las empresas y los destinos turísticos realizan esfuerzos por mantener o mejorar su posición competitiva. El presente estudio analiza el fundamento teórico de la competitividad turística a nivel de empresa y destino, y en particular el modelo del World Economic Forum (WEF). Se examina la significatividad conceptual y estadística (validez y fiabilidad) de los datos sobre competitividad turística del WEF para llevar a cabo análisis descriptivos, discriminantes y predictivos a nivel de país por parte de empresas, instituciones e investigadores. Los resultados obtenidos permiten concluir que el modelo del WEF es significativo a nivel teórico y estadístico, lo cual permite la toma de decisiones sobre competitividad por parte de las empresas y las instituciones turísticas, así como el desarrollo de estudios científicos de rigor. Los resultados muestran cuáles son las variables (pilares y TTDI del WEF) que deben tenerse en cuenta por las empresas para gestionar su competitividad internacional.

The objective of this research is to study the role played by business model innovation in the context of internationalisation by means of developing dynamic capabilities.

Dynamic capabilities tend to be related to each other in the context of generating higher-order capabilities. Considering this reality, it is expected to find a positive contribution of dynamic capabilities on the degree of internationalisation by means of business model innovation, which tends to be related to internationalization according to literature.

By means of the PLS-SEM technique, the resulting sample has been studied to corroborate the hypotheses proposed.

Results show that business model innovation behaves as a channeler for the positive effect that certain dynamic capabilities on the degree of internationalization. This implies that, in order to develop a proper internationalisation strategy, the use of dynamic capabilities can help in deploying the strategy intended to do so.

The main goal of this research is to carry out a predictive analysis of

the survival of the companies in the agri-food sector in Andalusia, as well as to

understand and examine the effects of two specific key factors: International activity

and CEO Gender. The influence of women as CEO has been analysed in other sectors,

but there is hardly any research focused on food sector and survival.

A sample of 2176 companies studied over 15 years (2005-2019) has been used

to verify wether their survival depends on economic-financial variables (Net income,

return on total assets, profit margin, net sales, liquidity ratio and turnover), the

companies’ degree of internationalisation and the gender perspective.

An econometric survival analysis has been applied, using the non-parametric

Kaplan-Meier estimator to detect the influence of each variable and a complementary

Log-Log regression.

The results point out that some of the financial variables such as return on total

assets or turnover affect business survival and it is also confirmed that international

activity affects positively the function, but the main discovery is defined by the fact that

the probability for the company to survive is higher in those directed by women