<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<p>This article explores the profound mismatch between the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and fundamentals for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The common survival of human life, society, and the global order as we know it, and the need for companies to make profit is not easy. The intractability of the problem is often underestimated in public as well as scientific debate. This article discusses the problem and possible ways to cope with it through ‘social entrepreneurship’ illustrated here by a study of nine firms in Sweden. The study draws on an amalgamation of Schumpeterian theory about “creative destruction” and the concept of “Emerging Davids vs. Greening Goliaths.”</p>
</abstract>

This article explores the profound mismatch between the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and fundamentals for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The common survival of human life, society, and the global order as we know it, and the need for companies to make profit is not easy. The intractability of the problem is often underestimated in public as well as scientific debate. This article discusses the problem and possible ways to cope with it through ‘social entrepreneurship’ illustrated here by a study of nine firms in Sweden. The study draws on an amalgamation of Schumpeterian theory about “creative destruction” and the concept of “Emerging Davids vs. Greening Goliaths.”

Aligning Corporate Social Responsibility with the United Nations’ Sustainability Goals: Trickier than it Seems?

ECONOMICS

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A Study of Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden

This article explores the profound mismatch between the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and fundamentals for Corporate Social...

Aligning Corporate Social Responsibility with the United Nations’ Sustainability Goals: Trickier than it Seems?

Published Online: Jun 04, 2021

Page range: 161 - 177

Received: Oct 12, 2020

Accepted: Apr 20, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eoik-2021-0009

Keywords
Social entrepreneurship, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Archie Carroll’s CSR pyramid, Emerging Davids vs. Greening Goliaths

© 2021 Christer Thörnqvist et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Aligning Corporate Social Responsibility with the United Nations’ Sustainability Goals: Trickier than it Seems?

Published Online: Jun 04, 2021

Page range: 161 - 177

Received: Oct 12, 2020

Accepted: Apr 20, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eoik-2021-0009

KeywordsSocial entrepreneurship, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Archie Carroll’s CSR pyramid, Emerging Davids vs. Greening Goliaths

© 2021 Christer Thörnqvist et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Social entrepreneurship, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Archie Carroll’s CSR pyramid, Emerging Davids vs. Greening Goliaths