Linking Organizational Resilience, Strategic Change, and Home Country Competitiveness to SDGs Performance: Evidence from Emerging Markets

Abstract

This study examines the impact of organizational resilience on the performance of multinational companies in emerging markets in achieving the SDGs. The study also examines the mediating role of strategic change. We used panel data on 623 multinational firms from Pakistan, India, and China from 2015 to 2024. The study employed a baseline direct effect Model (OLS) and the generalised method of moments (GMM), a dynamic panel estimation technique, to test our models. Based on the analysis, the study found that organisational resilience significantly enhances MNEs' SDG performance in emerging Asian economies. Moreover, strategic change mediates between organizational resilience and SDG performance. Organizational resilience enhances strategic change in organizations that leads to overall SDG performance. The study also found that home-country competitiveness further strengthens the relationship between organisational resilience and SDG performance. The study proposes several theoretical and practical research implications for policymakers, managers, and owners of MNEs focused on leveraging resilience to achieve organisational SDG alignment. The policy policymakers in emerging markets should focus on strengthening national competitiveness and supporting institutional resilience to promote growth guided by the SDGs.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Funding

The research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

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This study is based on secondary data obtained from publicly available sources and did not involve any human participants. Therefore, no participant consent was required, and all data were used in accordance with ethical standards for secondary data research.

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