Green Innovation and Knowledge Management in Organizations

Dear Colleagues,

Many leading companies are considering sustainability as a key part of their business strategy. Green innovation is one of the most important drivers to increase sustainability performance. Indeed, green innovation practices aim to minimize environmental impacts resulting from companies’ activities through energy minimization, materials reduction, and pollution prevention throughout the whole production process.

At the same time, knowledge management has gained considerable attraction from the business sector, being considered a crucial component in formulating strategies, creating new products and services, and overseeing operational processes. Companies have realised that knowledge management plays an essential role in enhancing a firm’s capability to manage knowledge as a resource to successfully create, develop, deliver, and capture value.

Although several studies have focused on knowledge management and its enablers in enhancing organizational performance, little attention has been paid to the role of knowledge management in green innovation.

The objective of this Special Issue is to promote research concerning the interrelationship between knowledge management practices and green innovation in organisations.

This Special Issue invites original papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Impacts of knowledge management on green innovation;
• Green knowledge management;
• Knowledge creation, acquisition, sharing, and application for green innovation;
• Product lifecycle management’s contribution to green innovation;
• Knowledge management system requirements for sustainability;
• Knowledge management and green innovation in standardisation;
• Contribution of knowledge management to Sustainable Development Goals.

The papers could adopt one or more of the following approaches (methodological, conceptual, empirical):

• analysis of survey results;
• development of new approaches and/or methods;
• consolidation or validation of existing approaches and/or methods;
• analysis of case studies;
• proposal of best practices;
• analysis and development of supporting IT tools;
• systematic literature reviews.

Other topics and approaches relevant to this Special Issue but not included in the list above will also be considered.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Paola Cocca
Dr. Joseph Paul Zammit
Guest Editors

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• green innovation
• knowledge management
• intellectual capital
• green knowledge management
• sustainability
• PLM