International Business and SDG8: Are We on Course?

The world is facing a ‘perfect storm’—a combination of largely man-made crises that puts the governance of the global economic, political, social and health system as developed since the 1990s under increasing pressure. The perfect storm presents a number of fundamental questions for engaged International Business (IB) scholarship. How to assess the action of (multinational) corporations under these circumstances? How to measure the effectiveness of corporate strategies for sustainable development? Moreover, what could engaged IB scholarship focus on in their research and teaching? Why is SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth) thereby particularly relevant? Are we on course?