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What is Sustainable Innovation

Chapter 11
Handbook of Research on Innovation, Differentiation, and New Technologies in Tourism, Hotels, and Food Service
involves making intentional changes to a company's products, services, or processes to generate long-term social and environmental benefits while creating economic profits for the firm.
Published in Chapter:
Tourism Entrepreneurship in Innovation Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities
Albérico Travassos Rosário (GOVCOPP, IADE, Universidade Europeia, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6985-9.ch011
Abstract
The increasing wealth and economic development have dramatically driven rapid growth in the tourism industry, making it one of the fastest growing and developing industries worldwide. Tourism entrepreneurship should involve adopting a green business model innovation that is more efficient and leads to low carbon production to balance the needs of the tourists with those of their desired destinations. Despite sustainability being a core concept in current policies and trends in the last decade, most company managers in the tourism industry are yet to incorporate it into the agenda. Based on this research gap, a systematic review of the bibliometric literature was conducted, and data was synthesized from 80 documents identified through the Scopus indexation using. This chapter aims to evaluate the challenges and opportunities of innovation sustainability in tourism entrepreneurship, thus building a clear image of what should be done to overcome the obstacles and increase awareness of the need for sustainable tourism.
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Chapter 7
Governance and Public Policy Challenges in Managing Disruptive and Innovative Technologies
Is an approach that applies in particular to the manner in which we develop and assess or evaluate the value of innovations that are supported to ensure positive and lasting long-term outcomes and impacts of innovative and new technologies.
Published in Chapter: Governance and Public Policy Challenges in Managing Disruptive and Innovative Technologies; From: Responsible, Sustainable, and Globally Aware Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Chapter 38
Sustaining Organizational Innovation
The ability of an innovation to continue after initial resources have been expended; long-term outcomes should consider the people, institution, and natural resources
Published in Chapter: Sustaining Organizational Innovation; From: Encyclopedia of E-Leadership, Counseling and Training
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Chapter 218
Sustainable Enterprise Excellence
An enterprise culture characteristic wherein innovation is regular, systematic, and systemic to enterprise strategy, activities, and results.
Published in Chapter: Sustainable Enterprise Excellence; From: Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
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Chapter 23
The Effect of Organizational Slack on Innovation Performance: An Empirical Study of High-Tech Industry in China
Sustainable innovation refers to the innovation that tends to continually improves the attributes of the existing technology, products or services by giving the organisation’s mainstream customers more or better values.
Published in Chapter: The Effect of Organizational Slack on Innovation Performance: An Empirical Study of High-Tech Industry in China; From: Handbook of Research on Driving Competitive Advantage through Sustainable, Lean, and Disruptive Innovation
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Chapter 201
Social-Ecological Innovation
An enterprise culture characteristic wherein innovation is regular, systematic, and systemic to enterprise strategy, activities, and results.
Published in Chapter: Social-Ecological Innovation; From: Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
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Chapter 7
Sustainable Innovation in Fashion Products: An Opportunity for Italian SMEs
The application of a new technologies or production methods as well as the development of new products - or the use of new materials and components in the manufacture of products - that aim to design a profitable product or service in an innovative and user-oriented way that benefits the environment and society.
Published in Chapter: Sustainable Innovation in Fashion Products: An Opportunity for Italian SMEs; From: Customer Satisfaction and Sustainability Initiatives in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Chapter 2
Agile Project Management in International Logistics Operations
Is a process where sustainability considerations (i.e., environmental, social, and economic) are integrated into company systems from idea generation through to research and development and commercialization.
Published in Chapter: Agile Project Management in International Logistics Operations; From: Contemporary Challenges for Agile Project Management
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