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Supporting sustainable innovation through stakeholder management: a systems view

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Although stakeholder-related considerations are receiving an increasing attention within development scenarios and in particular, within innovation processes, the actual management of stakeholders' identification and phase specific involvement has not been covered sufficiently, especially about sustainable innovation. A second shortcoming that can be observed is that sustainability and innovation are mainly treated as uncoupled systems, with a little effort to synthesise. This paper deals with how stakeholder-related problem-solving processes can contribute not only to the successful innovations, but also to sustainable innovations. Based on a brief discussion of the characteristics of sustainable innovation, the different types of stakeholders, their possible roles and their involvement within the problem-solving process are discussed based on a systems thinking perspective. The findings are demonstrated based on a quantitative analysis of the responses of 200 stakeholders (four different groups, each comprising 50 participants) and provide for meaningful results for stakeholder management issues.

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  • Gerald Steiner, 2008. "Supporting sustainable innovation through stakeholder management: a systems view," International Journal of Innovation and Learning, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(6), pages 595-616.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijilea:v:5:y:2008:i:6:p:595-616
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    1. Pasquale Ruggiero & Sebastiano Cupertino, 2018. "CSR Strategic Approach, Financial Resources and Corporate Social Performance: The Mediating Effect of Innovation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(10), pages 1-22, October.
    2. Anna Katharina Provasnek & Erwin Schmid & Gerald Steiner, 2018. "Stakeholder Engagement: Keeping Business Legitimate in Austria’s Natural Mineral Water Bottling Industry," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 150(2), pages 467-484, June.
    3. Liliya Satalkina & Gerald Steiner, 2020. "Digital Entrepreneurship and its Role in Innovation Systems: A Systematic Literature Review as a Basis for Future Research Avenues for Sustainable Transitions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-27, April.
    4. Duan, Yunlong & Mu, Chang & Yang, Meng & Deng, Zhiqing & Chin, Tachia & Zhou, Li & Fang, Qifeng, 2021. "Study on early warnings of strategic risk during the process of firms’ sustainable innovation based on an optimized genetic BP neural networks model: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 242(C).
    5. Sarah Behnam & Raffaella Cagliano, 2016. "Be Sustainable to Be Innovative: An Analysis of Their Mutual Reinforcement," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-18, December.
    6. Evgeniya Lupova-Henry & Nicola Francesco Dotti, 2019. "Governance of sustainable innovation: Moving beyond the hierarchy-market-network trichotomy? A systematic literature review using the ‘who-how-what’ framework," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/283521, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    7. Anna Katharina Provasnek & Erwin Schmid & Bernhard Geissler & Gerald Steiner, 2017. "Sustainable Corporate Entrepreneurship: Performance and Strategies Toward Innovation," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(4), pages 521-535, May.
    8. Domenica Lavorato & Palmira Piedepalumbo, 2023. "How Smart Technologies Affect the Decision-Making and Control System of Food and Beverage Companies—A Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(5), pages 1-21, February.
    9. Abbas Nadim & Shaike Marom & Robert N. Lussier, 2016. "Sustainable Innovation: Design of an Active Adaptive Organization," Business and Economic Research, Macrothink Institute, vol. 6(2), pages 211-227, December.
    10. Steiner, Gerald & Geissler, Bernhard & Watson, Ingrid & Mew, Michael C., 2015. "Efficiency developments in phosphate rock mining over the last three decades," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 105(PB), pages 235-245.

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