Emerald Studies in Sustainable Innovation Management
The series Emerald Studies in Sustainable Innovation Management aims at exploring the advancements of innovation management in turbulent times with a special attention to the transition towards a sustainable economy. The practice of innovation management is evolving rapidly as a consequence of positive phenomena such as digitalization and the green transition and negative ones such as crises and global emergencies.
The book series seeks to attract high quality academic texts and professional books that adopting an interdisciplinary point of view focus on recent developments in innovation management. Perspective authors are encouraged to submit works investigating how the so-called twin transitions digital and green are redefining managerial knowledge and practices in the field of social and technological innovation.
Subject areas
The book series aims at covering different areas and sub-disciplines related to innovation management. The aim is to give origin to books that analyse how innovation management evolves as a consequence of the evolution of innovation orientation entrepreneurship strategies processes business ethics business models and of the redefinition of managerial attitude strategies and knowledge management in the light of green and digital transition.
The books included in the series will deal with topics such as: the link between innovation management and specific forms of environmental change (for example the digital or green transition or major systemic crises); the impact of digital technologies on innovation management processes strategies and on the decisions of managers in terms of innovation; the implications for innovation management of the different sources and forms of innovation considered for example technological or social incremental or radical; variations in innovation management practices in different cultures sectors or types of companies (e.g. small and medium-sized enterprises).
Although contributions with a specific disciplinary orientation are accepted texts inspired by the inter multi and trans-disciplinary nature of knowledge are those considered to be of greatest interest.
Key audience
The Book series can provide scholars students and practitioners with multidisciplinary insights on the main drivers of effective innovation management. Other communities potentially interested in the series are:
1) Scholars in the field of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs given the strong overlap that the two disciplines show in recent years;
2) Scholars and professionals in the field of technology management;
3) Scholars in the field of creativity human resource management and strategic management for their reciprocal implication between innovation management and these fields of research.
