AbstractsEngineering

In moving to the corporate sustainability frontier, Carlsberg Myanmar faces both considerable constraints and intrinsic opportunities for developing a Corporate Resource Community in former closed Myanmar. Drawing on insights from system innovation and the DPSIR framework, this study explores the opportunities for addressing major environmental challenges in the water, agriculture and energy sector with sustainability experiments. This study identifies specific responses and managerial decisions can eliminate the impacts on ecosystem in Myanmar through sustainability experiments driven by Carlsberg as an exploratory case. Prospects for developing novel practices in water management, industrial symbiosis, bio fertilizer, biotechnology and cultivation techniques are on the drawing board in the brewing industry. These experiments, however, depend on corporate actor’s ability to mobilize the flows of materials and technical resource synergies with the communities that enable them. The approach seeks to widen multiple governance that encourages bottom-up approaches that are supported through global flows of knowledge by multiple actors. The absence of deeply structured public institutions to facilitate sustainability transitions in underdeveloped sectors of Myanmar challenges adaptation of novel technologies. The absence of strong inertia at public regime level opens windows of opportunities for innovative capability formations and cluster networking between community and private actors. Given the lack of agency in the sociotechnical regime the study also questions the role of corporate governance to be catalysts for sustainability transitions of core sectors in developing regimes. Although there are significant constraints for enabling technically advanced resource synergies in Myanmar, the study suggest how experiments offer an interesting testing ground for value adding sustainability gains and novel sustainability pathways.