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Innovation for Sustainability

Business Transformations Towards a Better World

Palgrave Macmillan
  • 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

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
  2. Introduction: Innovation for Sustainability

    • Nancy Bocken, Paavo Ritala, Laura Albareda, Robert Verburg
    Pages 1-16
  3. Strategy and Leadership for a Sustainability Transition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-116
    2. Leadership, Innovation, and Sustainability

      • Robert Verburg
      Pages 117-133
    3. Exploring the Pitfalls of Systemic Innovations for Sustainability

      • Nina Tura, Genevieve Mortimer, Antero Kutvonen
      Pages 157-175
    4. Toward Smart and Sustainable Business Models in Retail

      • Sveinung Jørgensen, Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen
      Pages 177-192
    5. Business Model Innovation for Sustainability Through Localism

      • Linn Meidell Dybdahl
      Pages 193-211Open Access
    6. Identifying Strategies for Sustainable Entrepreneurship

      • Tero Rantala, Minna Saunila, Juhani Ukko, Hannu Rantanen
      Pages 213-229
  4. Measurement and Assessment of Sustainable Innovation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-232
    2. Assessing the Impact of Sustainable Business Models: Challenges, Key Issues and Future Research Opportunities

      • Romana Rauter, Martina Zimek, Rupert J. Baumgartner, Josef-Peter Schöggl
      Pages 253-269
    3. Intentional Design for Diversity as Pathway to Scalable Sustainability Impact

      • Wouter C. Kersten, Jan Carel Diehl, Jo M. L. van Engelen
      Pages 291-309

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.

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

  • Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Nancy Bocken

  • Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Paavo Ritala, Laura Albareda

  • Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Robert Verburg

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

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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
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