Green Innovation: The Power Source of Enterprise Sustainable Development

Dear Colleagues,

In today’s world, countries are actively pursuing green, intelligent, and sustainable development, and green has become the trend of world development. As the concept of combining innovation and environmental development, the core purpose of green innovation is to break through the constraints of resource and environmental carrying capacity, seek harmony between economic growth and resource and environmental consumption, and achieve a win-win situation between development and the environment. However, green innovation needs to be promoted by internal corporate reforms and external environmental policies. Internally, through technological innovation, problems such as carbon emissions in the production process are solved. External environmental policies mainly include carbon tax, carbon emission trading, remanufacturing and recycling, green product subsidies, green technology innovation subsidies, and other policies to encourage enterprises to carry out green innovation to reduce the environmental impact.

Researchers in the fields of industrial economics, industrial engineering, logistics management, and strategic management should consider applying mathematical modeling and empirical analysis to explore the factors that affect green innovation, so as to ensure a win-win situation for both economic and social benefits.

Relevant themes include but are not limited to the following:

• Evaluation of green innovation efficiency and capability;
• Green technology innovation and green development;
• Green innovation and entrepreneurship;
• Green innovation system and strategy research;
• Green innovation and environmental governance;
• Green innovation and green logistics;
• Green innovation and green marketing;
• Green innovation and energy management;
• Green innovation and remanufacturing technology;
• Green innovation and human resource management;
• Digital technology empowerment and green innovation
• Environmental regulation policy and green innovation policy design;
• Influencing factors of corporate green innovation;
• The impact of green innovation on supply chain operations.

Dr. Jianhua Zhu
Dr. Jiaoping Yang
Dr. Yanming Sun
Dr. Chaoan Lai
Collection Editors

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