The Linkage between Sustainability and Innovation Performance in IT Hardware Sector
| Autor: | Antonello Cammarano, Mauro Caputo, Francesca Michelino, Andrea Celone |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Value (ethics)
Geography Planning and Development TJ807-830 innovation performance Linkage (mechanical) Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 Renewable energy sources law.invention specialization law GE1-350 Open innovation Ambidexterity Environmental effects of industries and plants Conceptualization exploitation vs. exploration Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry sustainability innovation ambidexterity open innovation Environmental sciences technological strategies Work (electrical) Corporate sustainability Sustainability patent data business Computer hardware |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 11 Issue 16 Sustainability, Vol 11, Iss 16, p 4275 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su11164275 |
| Popis: | This work investigates the relationship between sustainability and innovation performance. Despite the relevance of the issue, few contributions deepen such a relationship after both a conceptual and a quantitative perspective. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to suggest a measure of sustainability for innovation processes and to define which innovation strategies can lead to more sustainable processes. The role of ambidexterity within the corporate sustainability framework is underlined: Ambidextrous organizations are able to improve the innovation performance and better use their resources, improving the sustainability of research and development (R& D) processes. By employing patent data and testing the framework on a sample of worldwide top R& D spending companies in the IT hardware industry, this work suggests which optimal value of ambidexterity will lead to more sustainable innovation. In addition, R& D processes with non-optimal levels of ambidexterity can be managed in a better way. Indeed, results show the usefulness of open innovation adoption to improve the performance of exploration processes. Moreover, R& D activities based on a preponderance of exploitation strategies are more sustainable if they fall into technological domains in which the focal company is highly specialized. The work also contributes to the conceptualization of sustainability and to definition of patent-based metrics related to sustainability. |
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