Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the opportunities and challenges offered by innovation for sustainability
- Offers tools, models and methods to further sustainable business models
- Includes commentaries from industry, NGOs and governmental bodies to offer a truly holistic approach
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business In Association with Future Earth (PSSBAFE)
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About this book
The aim of this edited book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the opportunities and challenges related to innovation for sustainability. Combining work from both emerging and established scholars in different academic fields, this book provides an integrated understanding of the topic from four perspectives. First, the big picture: frameworks, types, and drivers; second, strategy and leadership; third, measurement and assessment and fourth, tools, methods and technologies.
Chapter 11 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
The editors donate their remuneration for this book to conservation organisation the WWF.
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Systemic View—the Big Picture
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Strategy and Leadership for a Sustainability Transition
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Measurement and Assessment of Sustainable Innovation
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Reviews
“Readers interested in company level accounts of innovation will find this book very useful and both the book and its individual chapters are likely to stay relevant for years. The book admirably achieves what it sets out to do. … It is a book for those who want to know more about firm-level product and process innovation. I can certainly recommend the book for this purpose.” (Paul Upham, R&D Management, August 29, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nancy Bocken is Professor in Sustainable Business Management and Practice at IIIEE, Lund University, Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology, and Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Paavo Ritala is Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the School of Business and Management at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland.
Laura Albareda is Associate Professor of Sustainable Business at the School of Business and Management at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland. She is also Visiting Professor at Deusto Business School.
Robert Verburg is an Associate Professor in Management and Director of the Management of Technology programme at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovation for Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Business Transformations Towards a Better World
Editors: Nancy Bocken, Paavo Ritala, Laura Albareda, Robert Verburg
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business In Association with Future Earth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97385-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97384-5Published: 06 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97385-2Published: 22 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-1320
Series E-ISSN: 2662-1339
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 457
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainability Management, Innovation/Technology Management, Corporate Social Responsibility