Business Innovation and Corporate Governance to Achieve Sustainable Organizations

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to bring together new research concerning the areas of business innovation, sustainable development, and corporate governance to bring value to organizations and society in general.

Although business innovation can be summarized as “doing something different to create value”, the importance of having a good corporate governance structure, integrated with sustainability policies/measures, allows governments to boost value for organizations in general.

Therefore, the exists a challenge regarding how to achieve more sustainable companies through more innovative business approaches and/or through corporate governance policies.

Thus, we welcome submissions that represent original, high-quality, theoretical, and empirical research, as well as policy-oriented research papers, to enrich our knowledge of areas related to business innovation, corporate governance, and sustainability.

It is especially encouraged the research that focuses on technologies and applications that have been profoundly transforming businesses and the organizations in general, presenting therefore new challenges and opportunities to achieve sustainability within companies. Some topics of interest include, but are not limited to, are as follows: IoT in Logistics, data analytics and business intelligence in Industry 5.0, AI, machine learning, blockchain, smart contracts, robotics and M2M (machine to machine), open innovation, sustainability, and, last but not the least, the issue of the privacy and security of data.

Dr. Ricardo Simões Santos
Dr. Antonio Pimenta de Brito
Dr. Luis Pires
Dr. Polinpapilinho Katina
Guest Editors

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