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Balancing people, planet and profit
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Purpose: Businesses are increasingly called upon to support the improvement of society and the environment, and one way to do so is by expanding into international markets, particularly through exports. Despite the importance and recognised challenges of a global approach to sustainable value creation, sustainability research tends to focus on domestic contexts. This paper aims to identify the boundary conditions linking sustainable value creation practices with firm performance in the international context. Design/methodology/approach: The authors merge the sustainable value creation and the international marketing literature to develop two propositions that capture the emerging nature of the field and the lack of concluding evidence regarding the link between international sustainable value creation practices and firm performance. The authors test these propositions empirically by analysing 519 responses to a survey of exporting firms in Portugal, using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. Findings: The authors identify seven configurations that support sustainable value creation in an international context. These consist of varying levels of standardised and tailored offers, management experience and competitive intensity. Practical implications: The identification of seven different configurations helps managers decide whether and how to innovate when pursuing sustainable value creation opportunities in international markets. Social implications: The authors propose that an effective way for governments to achieve national and transnational social and environmental agendas is to help businesses that pursue sustainable value creation to succeed in international markets. Given that four of the seven pathways to improve export performance that the authors identified require international management experience, the authors posit that an effective way to support the internationalisation of those businesses is through targeted training programmes and knowledge-sharing initiatives. Originality/value: The authors respond to calls for research to integrate the sustainable value creation and the international marketing literatures, to identify how and when firms can create sustainable value creation in an international context and thus support the resolution of global, social and environmental problems. The finding that there are multiple configurations that support this goal explains why empirical evidence collected thus far is inconclusive and helps identify the boundary conditions of existing theory.
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Funding Information: This work was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (UIDB/04521/2020, UIDB/00124/ 2020, UIDP/00124/2020 and Social Sciences DataLab– PINFRA/22209/2016), POR Lisboa and POR Norte (Social Sciences DataLab, PINFRA/22209/2016). The first author also acknowledges the funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No.101004362 for the NextOcean project and grant agreement No. 869520 for the NextLand project. Publisher Copyright: © 2024, Emerald Publishing Limited.
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Decision-making Innovation Internationalisation Standardisation/adaptation Sustainable value creation Accounting Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment General Business,Management and Accounting SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy