Revisiting the Impact of Technological and Organisational Innovation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2021) | Viewed by 22352
Special Issue Editors
Interests: innovation and quality management; sustainable and collaborative economy
Interests: strategy; innovative projects; entrepreneurship
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the context of continuous change and accelerated solutions needed to answer social, economic, environmental, and global societal challenges, innovation is the backbone of progress and one of the possible answers. It has long captured the interest of academics, business, and policymakers, and it continues to do so due to its multidisciplinary character, uneven implementation in organization, regions and nations, and complexity.
New technology and novel approaches of work organization make the apparently already traditional topics of technological innovation and organizational innovation an evergreen area deserving attention from both researchers and implementers. While the big picture is composed by antecedents’—decisions/processes—impact, potential adopters are mostly interested in performance explaining stories, in conditions where innovations are conceptually endorsed by their advantages and benefits for organizations, units, and individuals.
It is in this context that the assumption is that new technology and organisational concepts generate a new impact, and therefore, the objective of this Special issue is to advance knowledge by revisiting facets of impact in the light of new technologies accompanied by organizational innovations forming the Industry 4.0 paradigm. Further investigation is needed to discover positive, null, and negative impacts, complementarity or substitutive effects, types of impact areas (financial, operational, attitude, behaviour, etc.), impact fluctuation over time, as well as evidence on the spreading and diffusion of concrete tech-org solutions present in organization, a necessary and previous condition for impact generation.
Dr. Josep Llach
Dr. Andrea Bikfalvi
Dr. Rodolfo de Castro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Industry 4.0
- Smart industry
- New technologies
- Technological innovation
- Organizational innovation
- Impact
- Manufacturing
- Small medium enterprises
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