Sustainable Innovation: Solving Wicked Problems Through Innovation

Hautamäki, Antti; Oksanen, Kaisa

doi:10.1142/9789814719186_0005

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“…Perhaps the cause of this result is that the demands of stakeholders (i.e., end users, suppliers, competitors, or research center) as external factors have a stronger effect within SMEs, since they are more likely to be integrated within the operational organization. This finding further supports the idea of firms' willingness to be connected to and collaborate with stakeholders by developing and modifying their internal organization to provide better individual needs [211][212][213].…”

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confidence: 73%

The Role of Process Innovation between Firm-Specific Capabilities and Sustainable Innovation in SMEs: Empirical Evidence from Indonesia

Widya-Hasuti¹,

Mardani

Štreimikienė

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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The importance of sustainable innovation achievement propels firms to consider the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. However, it is important to clarify that not all innovations impact sustainable development. Regardless of the limited circumstances in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), intrapreneurship, stakeholder integration, and absorptive capacity are firm-specific capabilities that could be explored as strategic intentions of management practices in the organization. This paper investigated the mediating role of process innovation in the relationship among the firm-specific capabilities of absorptive capacity, intrapreneurship, and stakeholder integration for sustainable innovation in SMEs. This empirical study examines the manufacturing sector of Indonesian SMEs with a sample size of 190 firms. The study found that practices of process innovation, as a mediator triggered by the firm-specific capabilities of absorptive capacity, intrapreneurship, and stakeholder integration affect sustainable innovation, although at low stages. Finally, implications for the theory and practice of attaining sustainable innovation in SMEs are drawn.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 73%

The Role of Process Innovation between Firm-Specific Capabilities and Sustainable Innovation in SMEs: Empirical Evidence from Indonesia

Widya-Hasuti¹,

Mardani

Štreimikienė

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…A great number of different stakeholders from all over the world need to deal with the issue and change their mindset and behavior. As the term sustainable innovation also encompasses firm external forms of innovation, e.g., open innovation, sustainable innovation democrats solution finding as it aims at including all people [24]. This is in line with the evolution on the international development, where open approaches are increasingly focused.…”

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“…The term sustainable innovation has been used increasingly in recent years and includes the holistic and long-term development of social, economic and ecological objectives [6,10]. Such innovations are impact oriented, systemic and transformational and follow a boundary breaking and inclusive approach [6,10,24]. This type of innovation can be seen as relevant for solving wicked problems [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Such innovations are impact oriented, systemic and transformational and follow a boundary breaking and inclusive approach [6,10,24]. This type of innovation can be seen as relevant for solving wicked problems [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Sustainable product and technology innovations go beyond the improvement of its characteristics or intended uses, as they also include the reduction of resources to meet global societal and natural pressures [14]. As sustainable innovation goes beyond product and technology innovation [24], behavioral and system changes are also included. System innovation comprises behavioral changes as it is defined as transformation in the way societal functions like transportation, shopping and feeding are fulfilled [16].…”

Section: Sustainable Innovation and Wicked Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Crowdsourcing is increasingly applied in the area of open development with the goal to find solutions for today's pressing societal issues. To solve such wicked problems, manifold solutions need to be found and applied. In contrast to this, most recent research in crowdsourcing focuses on the few winning ideas, ignoring the sheer amount of content created by the community. In this study we address this issue by applying an automated text mining technique to analyze the ideas contributed by the crowd in an initiative tackling plastic pollution. We show that automated text mining approaches reveal numerous possibilities to make use of the so far unused content of IT enabled collaboration projects. We further add insights into how our findings can help researchers and practitioners to accelerate the solution process for today's pressing societal issues.

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2023

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Sustainable Innovation: Solving Wicked Problems Through Innovation

Cited by 12 publications

References 36 publications

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