The SDGs Resource Guide is complied by Mr. Junghoon Park, Ph.D. Candidate in Management, Baruch College, the City University of New York, co-author of the articles Implementing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in international business and The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: Pros and cons for managers of multinationals
Reviewed by Dr. Matthew Caulfield, Assistant Professor in the Management Department at WCU.
Edited by Grace Liu, Assistant Professor, Business Librarian at WCU.
The Global Academy provides a list of SDG researchers (searchable by SDG, country, or name)
Top Business Journal SDGs Publication Analysis (Rotterdam Business School; 2000-2020)
SDG Impact Intensity Journal Rating (searchable by publisher, journal, or SDG) (Saint Joseph's University, Haub School of Business)
It is important to distinguish studies using the SDGs as a key theoretical framework or direct object of analysis/measurement from the ones related to the SDGs.
1) General
Sachs, J. D. (2012). From millennium development goals to sustainable development goals. The Lancet, 379(9832): 2206–2211.
Griggs, D., Stafford-Smith, M., Gaffney, O., Rockström, J., Öhman, M. C., Shyamsundar, P., ... & Noble, I. (2013). Sustainable development goals for people and planet. Nature, 495(7441): 305–307.
Pradhan, P., Costa, L., Rybski, D., Lucht, W., & Kropp, J. P. (2017). A systematic study of sustainable development goal (SDG) interactions. Earth’s Future, 5(11), 1169–1179.
Nilsson, M., Chisholm, E., Griggs, D., Howden-Chapman, P., McCollum, D., Messerli, P., ... & Stafford-Smith, M. (2018). Mapping interactions between the sustainable development goals: lessons learned and ways forward. Sustainability Science, 13(6): 1489–1503.
Sachs, J. D., Schmidt-Traub, G., Mazzucato, M., Messner, D., Nakicenovic, N., & Rockström, J. 2019. Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Sustainability, 2(9): 805–814.
2) Management
George, G., Howard-Grenville, J., Joshi, A., & Tihanyi, L. (2016). Understanding and tackling societal grand challenges through management research. Academy of Management Journal, 59(6): 1880–1895.
Howard-Grenville, J., Davis, G. F., Dyllick, T., Miller, C. C., Thau, S., et al. (2019). Sustainable development for a better world: Contributions of leadership, management, and organizations. Academy of Management Discoveries, 5(4): 355–366.
Mio, C., Panfilo, S., & Blundo, B. (2020). Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(8): 3220–3245.
Pizzi, S., Caputo, A., Corvino, A., & Venturelli, A. (2020). Management research and the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs): A bibliometric investigation and systematic review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 276, 124033.
Consolandi, C., Phadke, H., Hawley, J., & Eccles, R. G. (2020). Material ESG outcomes and SDG externalities: evaluating the health care sector’s contribution to the SDGs. Organization & Environment, 33(4): 511–533.
3) International Business
Witte, C., & Dilyard, J. (2017). Guest editors’ introduction to the special issue: The contribution of multinational enterprises to the Sustainable Development Goals. Transnational Corporations, 24(3): 1–8.
Van Zanten, J. A., & Van Tulder, R. (2018). Multinational enterprises and the Sustainable Development Goals: An institutional approach to corporate engagement. Journal of International Business Policy, 1(3): 208–233.
Montiel, I., Cuervo-Cazurra, A., Park, J., Antolín-López, R., & Husted, B. W. (2021). Implementing the united nations’ sustainable development goals in international business. Journal of International Business Studies, 52(5): 999–1030.
4) Entrepreneurship
Embry, E., York, J. G., & Edgar, S. (2022). Entrepreneurs as essential but missing actors in the Sustainable Development Goals. In Handbook on the Business of Sustainability. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Apostolopoulos, N., Al-Dajani, H., Holt, D., Jones, P., & Newbery, R. (2018). Entrepreneurship and the sustainable development goals. In Entrepreneurship and the sustainable development goals. Emerald Publishing Limited.
5) Finance
Zhan, J. X., & Santos-Paulino, A. U. (2021). Investing in the sustainable development goals: Mobilization, channeling, and impact. Journal of International Business Policy, 4(1): 166–183.
Nedopil Wang, C., Lund Larsen, M., & Wang, Y. (2022). Addressing the missing linkage in sustainable finance: The ‘SDG Finance Taxonomy’. Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 12(2): 630–637.
Doumbia, D., & Lauridsen, M. L. (2019). Closing the SDG financing gap: Trends and data. EMCompass, no. 73. International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC.
6) Accounting
Bebbington, J., & Unerman, J. 2018. Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: An enabling role for accounting research. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 31(1): 2–24.
Bebbington, J., & Unerman, J. (2020). Advancing research into accounting and the UN sustainable development goals. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.