Innovation for Sustainable Business
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
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Interests: CSR; society 5.0; open data in innovation; management; sustainability
Interests: tourism; health resorts; business models; spa tourism; management; sustainability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to participate in this Special Issue entitled “Innovation for Sustainable Business”. The need for sustainable development creates opportunities for businesses by implementing innovations that are designed to provide a competitive advantage to those who apply more sustainable practices and who offer more sustainable products.
These innovations are related to concepts such as industrial ecology, ecological modernization, triple bottom line, and cradle-to-cradle design. However, in innovation for sustainable business, we must not only consider the ecological dimension. The pillar of these innovations is threefold: ecological, social, and economic. This approach enables the consideration of sustainable innovations at various levels, ranging from operational optimization through organizational transformation to systems building.
We are pleased to invite you to submit your contributions in the research field of the defined area. To promote the effectiveness of innovations for sustainable business, there is an urgent need to understand the conditions that influence the success or failure of their implementation, and to comprehend the complexities of their social, economic, and environmental dimensions.
This Special Issue arises at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting the global economy for over a year, and still thrives. It has strongly affected many activities that companies carry out, but the full effects of this have not been researched to date. This renders all research in this matter of high importance for the development of innovation for sustainable business and its functioning in the future. This Special Issue intends to bridge these gaps by tackling the aforementioned issues.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Conditions for successful innovation towards sustainability;
- Models of sustainability-oriented innovation;
- Case studies describing contexts and activities of sustainability-oriented innovation;
- Social, economic, and environmental dimensions of innovation for sustainable business;
- Management methods and tools dedicated to the implementation of sustainability-oriented innovation;
- The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on innovation for sustainable business;
- Sustainable business models.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
References:
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Dr. Iwona Zdonek
Prof. Dr. Adam R. Szromek
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Keywords
- sustainability-oriented innovation
- sustainable development
- management of eco-innovations
- models of sustainability-oriented innovation
- COVID-19 in sustainability-oriented innovation
- sustainable business models