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This book is an insightful text looking at sustainable innovation and the emerging fourth sector, i.e. hybrid organizations, through an interdisciplinary approach.
The book illuminates what hybrid organizations are and how they generate new ways of creating blended value to secure the well-being of future generations and preservation of ecological services. The book also discusses how sustainable innovation may offer creative solutions to societal issues, the sharing economy and the circular economy.
This book will appeal to those taking MBA and EMBA programmes, and those with an interest in creating sustainable business and innovation solutions.
List of contents
1. Managing Sustainable Innovation 2. Integrating the Base-of-the-Pyramid Business into Global Supply Chains 3. Indigenous Folkways, Subsistence Markets, and Rural Development in the Caribbean: A Case Study of a Social Bricoleur 4. Co-evolutionary Prospects and Sustainability 5. Drivers and Barriers to Sustainable Innovation in SMEs in the Context of Small Countries 6. Sustainable Innovation Crossing Technological Borders 7. Circular Business Model: The Case of the Tire Recycling Plant in the Bío-Bío Chilean Region 8. Sustainable Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Innovations in the Queenstown Food Sector 9. Determinants of Sustainable Innovation Capacities for Transition Economies 10. Social Innovation and Sustainability: A Compared Case Study based on the Implementation and Evaluation of Small-scale Actions in Atlantic Regions 11. Rural Sustainable Innovation and Creative Industries: Case Study of Rural Tourism Households in Pirot, Serbia
About the author
Vanessa Ratten is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Marketing, La Trobe University, Australia.
Marcela Ramirez-Pasillas is Assistant Professor at the Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden.
Hans Lundberg is Associate Professor at the Business School of Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation (EDESI), Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico.
Summary
The book illuminates what hybrid organizations are and how they generate new ways of creating blended value to secure the well-being of future generations and preservation of ecological services. The book also discusses how sustainable innovation may offer creative solutions to societal issues, the sharing economy and the circular economy.
