Innovation involves a set of processes which support the production
and transformation of knowledge into new processes, technologies
and products, goods and services, and provide an organization with
particular strengths and value relative to other firms. In such a
view, innovation is a key source of customer benefits and
sustainable competitive advantage. Technological, Managerial and
Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and
Sustainable Development investigates the impact of knowledge
management, information systems, finance, organizational networks,
internationalization, strategic management, marketing,
entrepreneurship, and sustainability on an organization that
pursues dynamic innovation and sustainable advantage. This book
provides research and practice for graduate and undergraduate
programs, as well as business firms with different technological,
managerial, and organizational perspectives. Further Description
from the Editors: This book represents the culmination of an
international project to compile inter-disciplinary research that
most contributes to innovation. More specifically, this book is
about innovation in firms, industries, nations and society. It
speaks to professionals and researchers who want to improve their
understanding of dynamic innovation and sustainable development.
The Editors goal is to foster cross-pollination among researchers.
To this aim, the Editors have selected and assembled 35 chapters
that illustrate multidisciplinary theoretical perspectives and
empiric results on innovation and the roles of Sustainability,
Organizational Networks, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Management,
R&D&T (Research, Development and Technology) Management,
Marketing, Finance, Internationalization, and Information Systems
in the organization that pursues dynamic innovation and sustainable
development. Innovation involves processes, organizational elements
(or resources ), and Organizational Abilities (OA) that support the
production and transformation of knowledge into new knowledge,
processes, structures, technologies and products, goods and
services. At the firm and industry levels of analysis, innovation
can provide organizations with strengths relative to other firms,
clusters, and nations and it is a key source of customer benefits
and sustainable development. At the collective and societal levels
of analysis, innovation can provide humanity with economic, social
and environmental wealth through sustainable development. The
uniqueness of this book lies in the participants efforts to
identify Organizations' Creative Areas (OCA) that can provide core
competencies for the organization in pursuit of dynamic innovation
and sustainable development. In this perspective, innovation is a
dynamic system and it is contingent upon a set of core competencies
that couple to each other. Therefore, changing of even one
competence can affect the organization's ability to innovate. The
book avoids the term competitive advantage and adopts a more
fruitful perspective of sustainable development the process of
achieving human development in an inclusive, connected, equitable,
prudent, and secure manner . An inclusive perspective sees
traditional competitive advantage as occupying one extreme, whereas
truly sustainable development occupies the opposite extreme.
Sustainable development must benefit not only the organization and
its customers, but also the whole society and the future of
humanity through sustainability . Most chapters of this book fall
between these extremes.
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