Sustainable Organizational Adaptation: Nurturing Ecosystems for Innovation and Resilience
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 January 2026 | Viewed by 8195
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To ensure long term sustainability and viability, organizations must continuously adapt to overcome the plethora of challenges emerging from the accelerated rates of change taking place in today's business environment. Over the last two decades, ecosystems have gained popularity as a mechanism for sustainable organizational adaptation. This has been followed by the growing extant body of literature comprising myriads of studies examining it through a diverse and multi-faceted lens. Despite the growing attention, the extant literature is yet to fully address pertinent research questions bordering around strategies for nurturing ecosystems for innovation and resilience value gains. Such research areas that require further research include ecosystem innovation (creation, improvement, expansion, contraction or transformation), ecosystem dynamism, embeddedness and internationalization, among a host of others.
This Special Issue explores the mechanisms surrounding the creation, nurture, and evolution of ecosystems for the engenderment of innovation and resilience which are pivotal for sustainable organizational adaptation. We invite original manuscripts (research articles and reviews) covering, but not limited to, the examination of how complex adaptive systems—particularly ecosystems—can be nurtured to maximize innovation and resilience values for sustainable organizational adaptation and other related topics. We welcome studies deploying quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods as well as timeless (conceptual/theoretical) and timely (practitioner-oriented and readily deployable) studies.
Prof. Dr. Okechukwu Lawerence Emeagwali
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- innovation ecosystems
- ecosystem innovation
- ecosystem management
- business ecosystems
- innovation ecosystem management
- strategic adaptability
- sustainable adaptation
- complex adaptive systems
- organizational resilience
- open innovation
- value networks
- absorptive capacity
- co-innovation
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