Work

The Innovation Levers to Sustainability Management: Entrepreneurship, Design and Policy

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: We provide an actionable framework for any organization to achieve sustainability through innovation. We propose three distinct innovation levers; namely Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Design which when judiciously activated and combined, can offer a clear path to sustainability with a strong competitive edge. We start by offering a critique of the current views on the importance of innovation to the sustainability challenge, followed by a prescriptive Enterprise Roadmap to Sustainability on how to leverage the interplay between Intra/Entrepreneurship, design, and policy, focusing on management policy, in order to create an innovation-based sustainable organization. This work is the first to identify three effective levers of innovation and provides a practical methodology on how to leverage them to achieve business sustainability that is also market competitive.

Source: Journal of Management and Sustainability

DOI: 10.5539/jms.v5n1p10

Author: Lotfi Belkhir

Institution: McMaster University

Language: English

Topic: Sustainability and Innovation in Business

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: McMaster University

Award: G3137937074