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Collaboration for Sustainability and Innovation: A Role For Sustainability Driven by the Global South?

A Cross-Border, Multi-Stakeholder Perspective

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Editors:
  1. Diego A. Vazquez-Brust

    1. School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom

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  2. Joseph Sarkis

    1. School of Business, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, USA

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  3. James J. Cordeiro

    1. Brockport College at Brockport, State University of New York, Brockport, USA

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  • Provides tools and models for cross-border collaboration for innovation and sustainability, especially building on models developed in the South that are transferable to the North
  • Applies the tools of innovation science to the pursuit of sustainable economics
  • Shows how traditional models of exploitation and consumption can be improved for the benefit of all

Part of the book series: Greening of Industry Networks Studies (GINS, volume 3)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Collaboration for Sustainability and Innovation in the Global South: A Cross-Border, Multi-stakeholder Perspective

    • Diego A. Vazquez-Brust, Joseph Sarkis, James J. Cordeiro
    Pages 1-23

  3. Challenges of Cross-Border Collaboration: Knowledge Networks for Innovation and Sustainability in the Global South

    • Cecilia Hidalgo, Claudia E. Natenzon
    Pages 25-42

  4. The Role of Expatriates in Cross-Subsidiary Collaboration

    • Minori Kusumoto
    Pages 43-62

  5. The Roles of First and Second Tier Suppliers in Greening International Supply Chains

    • Chao-Min Liu, Diego A. Vazquez-Brust, Joseph Sarkis
    Pages 63-85

  6. Cross-Border Innovation in South–North Fair Trade Supply Chains: The Opportunities and Problems of Integrating Fair Trade Governance into Northern Public Procurement

    • Alastair M. Smith
    Pages 87-105

  7. Transboundary Conservation Through Hybrid Partnerships: A Comparative Analysis of Forest Projects

    • Saleem H. Ali
    Pages 107-126

  8. Multi-stakeholder International Governance Initiatives: Addressing the Challenges of ASM Sector in Ghana

    • Natalia Yakovleva, Diego A. Vazquez-Brust
    Pages 127-148

  9. Implementing a Developing Country’s Global Environmental Commitments: Industry Perspectives on Potential Pollution Prevention Programs in Bangladesh

    • Asadul Hoque, Amelia Clarke, Adriane MacDonald
    Pages 149-175

  10. Technology Adaptation and Assimilation of Takakura for Promoting Environmental Protection in Surabaya (Indonesia) Through City Level Cooperation

    • Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira
    Pages 177-191

  11. Collaboration and Partnership in the Context of Indian CSR: The Global Compact Local Network and the I4D Project

    • Jorge A. Arevalo
    Pages 193-216

  12. Innovation, Investment, Enterprise: Generating Sustainable Livelihood at Grassroots Through Honey Bee Philosophy

    • Anil K. Gupta
    Pages 217-232

  13. Fantasías 2.0: Digital Literacy and Social Inclusion in the South Through Collective Storytelling

    • María Florencia Ripani
    Pages 233-256

  14. Innovative Sustainable Partnership Between UNESP and a Rural Community: The Bamboo Project

    • Marco Antônio dos Reis Pereira, Rosane Aparecida Gomes Battistelle, Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour
    Pages 257-270

  15. “The Biofuels Program”: Decreasing Rural Poverty and Environmental Deterioration Through Cooperative Land-Use Innovation

    • Clovis Zapata, Diego A. Vazquez-Brust, José Plaza-Ubeda, Jerónimo de-Burgos-Jiménez
    Pages 271-292

  16. Eco-Innovation at the “Bottom of the Pyramid”

    • Mario Pansera, Richard Owen
    Pages 293-313

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 315-322
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About this book

A number of arguments are made by an international group of authors in this though provoking book about an understudied and socially important context. A future in which financial wealth transfers across the North-South divide from richer to poorer countries is far from sufficient for the relief of poverty and the pursuit of sustainability. Caution must be taken when growth is achieved through the liquidation of the natural wealth of poorer nations, in order to maintain a global economic status quo. Neither poverty reduction nor sustainability will ultimately be achieved. The financial collapse and social upheaval that might result will make the most recent economic downturn look trivial by comparison. What is more urgently needed instead, as argued in this book, is collaboration for sustainability and innovation in the global South, especially building on models originally developed in the South that are transferable to the North. In pursuit of a sustainable and more equitable future, the book examines such topics as Cross-Border Innovation in South-North Fair Trade Supply Chains; Potential Pollution Prevention Programs in Bangladesh; Digital Literacy and Social Inclusion in the South through Collective Storytelling and Eco-innovation at the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’. Many of these stories and have not been told and need greater visibility. The book contributes in a meaningfully to the discussion of how innovation and sustainability science can benefit both sides in South-North innovation collaborations. It provides useful introduction to the topics, as well as valuable critiques and best practices. This back-and-forth flow of ideas and innovation is itself new and promising in the modern pursuit of a fair and sustainable future for all regions of our planet.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom

    Diego A. Vazquez-Brust

  • School of Business, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, USA

    Joseph Sarkis

  • Brockport College at Brockport, State University of New York, Brockport, USA

    James J. Cordeiro

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Collaboration for Sustainability and Innovation: A Role For Sustainability Driven by the Global South?

  • Book Subtitle: A Cross-Border, Multi-Stakeholder Perspective

  • Editors: Diego A. Vazquez-Brust, Joseph Sarkis, James J. Cordeiro

  • Series Title: Greening of Industry Networks Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7633-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7632-6Published: 06 December 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0765-5Published: 18 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7633-3Published: 20 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2543-0246

  • Series E-ISSN: 2543-0254

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 322

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sustainable Development, Business and Management, general, Social Sciences, general

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