Dear Colleagues,

Corporate sustainability and technological innovation for firm performance have been considered amongst the central issues for maintaining an edge in the competitive world of business. The predictive exploration of a firm’s strategic competencies, in order to enhance economic performance and sustainable market growth, has also been one of the major research issues in the business and management fields, regardless of the types of organizations. As such, the strategic significance of corporate sustainability, technological innovation, and operational efficiency for firm performance has been of great interest to both researchers and practitioners alike in today’s uncertain and competitive market conditions.

The strategic drives for improved corporate sustainability performance through more progressive technological innovation and better utilization of operational resources are the most critical strategic forces for firms who wish to survive and excel in a challenging market environment. Despite the growing need to explore corporate sustainability’s strategic significance in terms of firm performance, the drive towards corporate competency through environmental greening and technological innovation, as well as operational efficiencies, are still intriguing subjects in business literature, mainly because of the differing managerial perspectives. The strategic significance of corporate sustainability, technological innovation, and operations efficiency is relatively controversial. The controversy arises from the issues stemming from measuring critical strategic components and then benchmarking them across firms, industry sectors, and countries.

This Special Issue will explore the strategic significance of sustainability, technological innovation, and operational efficiency, both individually and jointly, to improve economic performance in the competitive market across different industries and countries. The articles in this issue will shed light on the critical strategic factors that directly contribute to firm performance. Furthermore, this Special Issue will provide academics and practitioners with a diverse perspective on sustainability and its relationship to corporate performance in a competitive global market.

The topical subjects of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Corporate sustainability * (environmental, social and governmental) and firm economic performance;
• Corporate sustainability *, technological innovation and firm economic performance;
• Corporate sustainability *, operational efficiency (i.e., operational efficiency of company assets) and firm performance;
• Joint effect of corporate sustainability, technological innovation, and operational efficiency on firm economic performance;
• Sustainability performance and firm economic performance;
• Determinants of firm economic performance through corporate responsibility;
• Global perspective on these topic are highly welcomed.

Prof. Dr. Jooh Lee
Prof. Dr. Niranjan Pati
Dr. He-Boong Kwon
Guest Editors

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• corporate social responsibility
• environmental greening
• technological innovation
• operations efficiency
• firm performance