Sustainable Innovation

Strategy, Process and Impact

Cosmina L. Voinea, Nadine Roijakkers, Ward Ooms, Cosmina L. Voinea, Nadine Roijakkers, Ward Ooms

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Topic: Economics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000337808
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Economics

The most important theme of the discourse on sustainable development and sustainability challenges concerns the relationship between innovation and sustainability. This book represents a realistic critical overview of the state of affairs of sustainable innovations, offering an accessible and comprehensive diagnostic point of reference for both the academic and practitioner worlds. In order for sustainable innovation to truly become mainstream practice in business it is necessary to find out how organizations can strategically and efficiently accommodate sustainability and innovation in such a manner that they accomplish value capturing (for firms, stakeholders, and for society), not merely creating a return on the social responsibility agenda. Addressing this challenge, the book draws together research from a range of perspectives in order to understand the potential shifts and barriers, benefits, and outcomes from all angles: inception, strategic process, and impact for companies and society. The book also delivers insights of (open) innovation in public sector organizations, which is not so much a process of invention as it is one of adoption and diffusion. It examines how the environmental pillar of the triple bottom line in private firms is often a by-product of thinking about the economic pillar, where cost reductions may be achieved through process innovation in terms of eliminating waste and reducing energy consumption. The impact of open innovation on process innovation, and sustainable process innovation in particular, is an underexplored area but is examined in this book. It also considers the role of the individual entrepreneur in bringing about sustainable innovation; entrepreneurs, their small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as the innovation ecosystems they build play a significant role in generating sustainable innovations where these smaller organizations are much more flexible than large organizations in targeting societal needs and challenges. The readership will incorporate PhD students and postgraduate researchers, as well as practitioners from organizational advisory fields.

Index

Note: Bold page numbers refer to tables; italic page numbers refer to figures and page numbers followed by “n” denote endnotes.

• accountability: charities 201–202
  • description 201
  • learning and 199–200
• Adams, R. 42, 44, 224
• adaptive capacity 187
• Adner, R. 98
• Aguirre, B. E. 213
• Ahuja, G. 127
• Albareda, L. 43
• Allen, R. 188
• Amazon Web Service 155
• Ardito, L. 215
• Arnold, M. G. 126
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) 149, 155
• Arvidson, M. 203, 204
• Aspara, J. 22
• Athreye, S. 235
• authenticity 67–68, 69, 71

• Balanced Scorecard (BSC) 202
• Banerjee, A. V. 200
• Barrios, A. 39
• Barr, P. S. 19, 25
• Bessant, J. 215, 217, 224
• Big Data 149, 155
• Bigliardi, B. 9, 118
• biological assets, defined 240
• Birchall, D. 241
• Bloom, P. N. 116
• Blün (Agriculture) 59, 61–62
• Bocken, N. 43, 57, 66, 73, 75
• Bogers, M. 144
• Bossink, B. 5
• Brass, D. J. 86
• Bretschneider, U. 145
• Brotsüchtig (Food) 60–61
• “Brundtland Report” 3, 55
• Buggy, L. 187
• building resilience: climate change resilience 185–186
  • knowledge and innovation 185
  • traditional (or indigenous) climate knowledge (ICK) 185
  • vulnerability indicators see vulnerability
• Burkhardt, M. E. 86
• business ecosystem 98...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Editorial
• Thematic section one The strategy perspective
• Thematic section two The network perspective
• Thematic section three The process perspective
• Thematic section four The impact perspective
• References
• Index