Exploring and investigating the complementarity and multidimensionality of innovation for sustainability research: Past present and future

IF 11.1 1区管理学 Q1 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Technovation Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI:10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103127

Vijay Pereira , Asha KS. Nair , Som Sekhar Bhattacharyya

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Abstract

Innovation and sustainability are distinct but complementary topics, and hence, complex, multidimensional, and multidisciplinary. It is thus natural that research on ‘innovation for sustainability’, though important, is largely scattered and unstructured. This article aims to rectify this gap by developing a systematic study, quantitatively depicting the knowledge structure and the intellectual progress of innovation for sustainability in the business management literature. To this end, we applied bibliometric analysis to study 1842 innovation for sustainability articles from the ‘Web of Science’ database. Our robust methodology included deploying the document co-citation analysis, co-word analysis, and thematic evolution to trace the intellectual structure and conceptual structure of the innovation for sustainability field. Further, through a thorough qualitative content analysis, we developed a comprehensive conceptual framework comprising drivers, innovation practices, and performance indicators of innovation for sustainability. Additionally, we examined the latest trending articles based on total local citations (TLC) and total global citations (TGC) to delineate the potential future research directions. Overall, thus, this research contributed to the innovation for sustainability literature by combining a tripartite methodology of bibliometric analysis, qualitative content analysis, and analysis of trending articles to determine the intellectual structure and potential future research directions.

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探索和研究可持续性研究创新的互补性和多面性：过去、现在和未来

创新和可持续性是两个截然不同但又相辅相成的主题，因此也是复杂的、多层面的和多学科的。因此，关于 "可持续发展创新 "的研究虽然重要，但大多分散且无序，这是很自然的。本文旨在通过开展系统性研究，定量描述商业管理文献中有关可持续发展创新的知识结构和思想进步，从而弥补这一不足。为此，我们运用文献计量学分析方法，对 "科学网 "数据库中的 1842 篇可持续发展创新文章进行了研究。我们采用的可靠方法包括文献共引分析、共词分析和主题演化，以追踪可持续发展创新领域的知识结构和概念结构。此外，通过全面的定性内容分析，我们建立了一个由可持续发展创新的驱动因素、创新实践和绩效指标组成的综合概念框架。此外，我们还根据本地总被引频次（TLC）和全球总被引频次（TGC）对最新的趋势性文章进行了研究，以确定未来潜在的研究方向。总之，本研究将文献计量分析、定性内容分析和趋势文章分析三者相结合，确定了知识结构和未来潜在的研究方向，从而为可持续发展创新文献做出了贡献。

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Technovation 管理科学-工程：工业

CiteScore

15.10

自引率

11.20%

发文量

208

审稿时长

91 days

期刊介绍： The interdisciplinary journal Technovation covers various aspects of technological innovation, exploring processes, products, and social impacts. It examines innovation in both process and product realms, including social innovations like regulatory frameworks and non-economic benefits. Topics range from emerging trends and capital for development to managing technology-intensive ventures and innovation in organizations of different sizes. It also discusses organizational structures, investment strategies for science and technology enterprises, and the roles of technological innovators. Additionally, it addresses technology transfer between developing countries and innovation across enterprise, political, and economic systems.