Building Capabilities for Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Digital Era
A Special Issue of Administrative Sciences (ISSN 2076-3387) belonging to the section "Strategic Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 453
Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The digital era is reshaping how organizations and entrepreneurs innovate, compete, and respond to pressing sustainability challenges. Digital technologies are creating new opportunities for sustainable value creation, business model renewal, and entrepreneurial action. At the same time, growing environmental, social, and economic pressures require firms and entrepreneurs not only to adopt new technologies but also to develop the capabilities needed to use them effectively and responsibly. Among others, digital, organizational, relational, and innovation capabilities are becoming critical for enabling sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship across different sectors and contexts.
The aim of this Special Issue is to address the crucial challenge of how capabilities are built, combined, and deployed to support sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship in the digital era.
We invite submissions of original research articles and reviews in areas that may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Digital capabilities for sustainable innovation;
- Capability development for entrepreneurship in digitally evolving environments;
- Dynamic capabilities and sustainability-oriented innovation;
- Organisational capability building for responsible digital innovation;
- Entrepreneurial capabilities for sustainable business model innovation;
- Ecosystem-level capabilities supporting sustainable entrepreneurship;
- Knowledge integration and capability development in digital contexts;
- AI, analytics, and data-driven capabilities for sustainable value creation;
- Institutional and environmental conditions shaping capability building;
- Capability reconfiguration for resilience, adaptation, and long-term sustainability.
Dr. Mehrzad Saeedikiya
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- capability building
- sustainable innovation
- entrepreneurship
- digital era
- digital capabilities
- innovation capabilities
- corporate sustainability
- entrepreneurial ecosystems
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