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Strategic Enterprise Management and Sustainable Economic Development

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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 1652

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Dr. Maria-Eleni K. Agoraki

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Department of Accounting and Finance, University of the Peloponnese, Antikalamos, 24100 Kalamata, Greece
Interests: sustainability; corporate governance; sustainable economic development; strategic enterprise management
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Dear Colleagues,

In an ever-changing global environment, the relationship between Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) and sustainability is intricate and multifaceted. Strategic Enterprise Management seeks to effectively link performance and strategic objectives, while sustainability can optimize and harmonize the goals of multiple stakeholders. Various SEM efforts have emphasized that operational decision making is fully focused on delivering strategic objectives that can offer a sustainable, more efficient, and cost-effective competitive advantage. Balancing resource consumption, technological innovation and economic development is challenging, especially as global sustainability issues such as climate change provoke global debate. Complex conditions that involve increased agency conflicts require a systemic framework for enterprise development that can efficiently deal with the interconnections of multiple and diversified elements of both internal and external environments.

Sustainable development is a multidimensional process, and several components should be considered when making investment decisions, including human development (education and health), social and economic development (environmental facilities, infrastructure, and economic growth), environmental development (natural resources and environmental quality), and social aspects and governance (ESG principles). Various main factors are essential for advancing sustainable development, including, among others, natural and human resources, managerial and production organization, technological innovations, social and political factors, financial development and funding, legislative frameworks, corporate social responsibility, and corporate governance. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) consider several factors to achieve sustainable development, such as social equality, inclusion, human rights, reduced poverty, improved education, and protection of the environment.

Further investigation into the specific challenges and opportunities of different countries and regions, industries and company sizes, governance structures, policy approaches, and resource endowments could enlighten us on the relationship between economic growth and sustainability outcomes. The complex interplay and interconnections between the elements of SEM and Sustainable Economic Development require further research to bridge the gap between different fields of study. Understanding how strategic enterprise management promotes sustainability may inform policymakers, academics, entrepreneurs, investors and other stakeholders interested in creating sustainable economic growth strategies, innovative solutions and initiatives that boost long-term development.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of Sustainability, entitled “Strategic Enterprise Management and Sustainable Economic Development”. This Special Issue will publish a selection of high-quality papers that address various fields of interest, with the aim to contribute to the current body of research.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

the impact of Sustainable Economic Development;
sustainability and innovation;
sustainable value creation;
Strategic Enterprise Management and sustainability;
Strategic Enterprise Management and digital technology;
Sustainable Economic Development and artificial intelligence;
Sustainable Development Goals and corporate governance;
environment, social and governance principles (ESGs);
sustainable finance;
sustainability of strategic management practices and efficiency;
market effectiveness, sustainability of strategic management and stakeholder-oriented reporting;
Strategic Enterprise Management and a competitive advantage.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Maria-Eleni K. Agoraki
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

strategic enterprise management
sustainable economic development
sustainability
innovation
entrepreneurship
corporate governance
performance
strategy model
efficiency

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Cultural Values as Catalysts of Technological Innovation for a Sustainable Future

by Konstantina K. Agoraki, Georgios A. Deirmentzoglou and Christos Triantopoulos

Sustainability 2024, 16(5), 2064; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16052064 - 01 Mar 2024

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Innovation is a key element for companies that aim to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage. Recently, a great number of academics and practitioners have focused on the role of cultural values to provide further incentives to firms to invest more in innovation that will give them a market edge. The purpose of this paper is to provide further insights into the relationship between cultural values and innovation. Primary data were collected from top managers in medium- and large-sized enterprises to determine how cultural values affect four types of technological innovation. The results indicate that two cultural values have a significant influence on firms’ innovative practices. Collectivism and uncertainty avoidance have a significant negative impact on radical, process and product innovation. Thus, we argue that managers who emphasize their personal ambitions and are comfortable with ambiguity are more likely to achieve innovation in their organization. Full article

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Business Management for Sustainability

by John Ikerd

Sustainability 2024, 16(9), 3714; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16093714 - 29 Apr 2024

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The purpose of this paper is to address a fundamental flaw in prominent approaches to managing businesses for sustainability. Current management strategies fail to recognize the fundamental differences between economic, social, and moral or ethical values. Economic values are instrumental, individual, and impersonal. Social values are reciprocal, communal, and personal. Moral values are altruistic, spiritual, and universal. These are not arbitrary definitions but expressions of basic differences among the three types of value. These differences reveal the fundamental flaws in attempts to assign economic value or objectively quantify the social and ecological costs and benefits of economic enterprises. The transactional, social, and moral economies are defined in ways that avoid compromising the differences in values. In addition, a natural hierarchy exists among nature, society, and economy that requires a corresponding hierarchy of moral, social, and economic values in managing sustainable organizations. The strategies, motives, and metrics that have dominated sustainable business management for the past several decades, and the related research and educational programs that support them, fail to reflect differences among economic, social, and moral values that are critical to sustainability. Full article

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