Sustainability in Strategic Management and Innovation in the Digital Age
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 15550
Special Issue Editors
Interests: entrepreneurship; sustainable development; SMEs; innovation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing explosion of digital technologies possibly holds much potential for solving some of society's most conspicuous and major challenges such as resource depletion, scarceness, disparity, and climate change. Connected devices, smart algorithms, and big data support the reformation of supply chains, enable more resource and energy‐efficient consumption, and accelerate the diffusion of sustainable innovation. Moreover, these tools are instrumental for the strategic management of all types of organziations. It is evident that human beings are bound to evolve and innovate, however, this tendency has also negatively impacted the environment and natural resources specially in the last few decades. The measures taken to facilitate businesses and to develop economies have devastating impact on environment. Past few decades have seen a catastrophic growth in the global environmental crisis along with rapid technological development. Keeping the global environmental crisis in view, there is an utmost need to rethink the existing business models, management policies, and strategies to reverse the damage that has already been done. The prevailing situation has emphasized the importance to review the globalization and growth strategy towards the pursuit of innovative and sustainable models for business development and growth with a special focus on the employment, environmental upgrading, and quality of life in these models. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are quite relevant in this regard since they aimed at promoting sustainable economic advancement through better levels of production and application of technological advances.
Innovation is deemed as an important factor, which can ensure sustainability and improve the effectiveness of firms. All social and economic processes tend to universally have the political, technological, environmental, and digital trends. Nonetheless, various problems exist in literature relevant to role of digital technologies in the sustainable economic development of startups, SMEs, and large manufacturing firms. Keeping all this in view, this special issue aims to look for empirical and theoretical research that is able to cover a variety of issues that include but are not limited to the following areas:
- Sustainable economy and entrepreneurial trends in digital era
- Eco-friendly practices and small family businesses
- Sustainable business models
- Strategic management practices in non-profit organizations
- CSR within strategic management spectrum and sustainability
- Strategic management tools for sustainable development
- Changing strategic management paradigms and sustainability
- Innovation and social sustainability
- Management and sustainable leadership
- Sustainable HRM and innovation
- Cultural antecedents of sustainability and institutional approach
- Non-traditional methodologies for sustainable development in different spheres (economic, educational, social, etc.)
- Conceptual understanding of sustainability-driven business models
- Analysis of the relationship among the development of digital technologies, sustainability-led innovations and open innovation approaches
- Entrepreneurship, sustainability and consumer behavior
- Identification of influencing factors linked to the exploitation of sustainability-led innovations by industrial enterprises
- Sustainability and global supply chain management
- Ecosystem approaches to sustainable socioeconomic development
- Developing sustainable industrial/business networks
- Evaluation of the contribution of digital technologies to innovation ecosystems development: regional, national and local level
- Education on Sustainability, Climate Change, Society, and Inclusiveness
- Analysis of the impact of digital technologies on organizational and innovation performances
- Value creation and value appropriation in green business networks
- Technology, technological innovation and green entrepreneurship
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Muhammad Salman Shabbir
Dr. Arshad Mahmood
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable development
- innovation
- strategic management
- digitalization
- technology
