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

1. Front Matter

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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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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.

• South-North collaboration
• cross-border innovation
• equitable futures
• multi-stakeholder
• sustainable development

• 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

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