Sustainable Innovation in Organizations: A Look from Processes, Products, and Services

Jhon Zartha (), Gina Orozco, Diana Barreto and Diego García ()
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Jhon Zartha: Faculty of Agroindustrial Engineering, School of Engineering, Pontificia Bolivarian University, Medellin 050031, Colombia
Gina Orozco: Faculty of Agroindustrial Engineering, School of Engineering, Pontificia Bolivarian University, Medellin 050031, Colombia
Diana Barreto: Master’s Program in Sustainability, Faculty of Agroindustrial Engineering, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin 050031, Colombia
Diego García: Master’s Program in Sustainability, Faculty of Agroindustrial Engineering, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin 050031, Colombia

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 6, 1-16

Abstract: Sustainability has been playing a major role on the world stage. As with everything, in the beginning, it was aligned with purely environmental contexts, but with the passing of the years, this concept has encompassed other aspects, such as the way of producing products and services. In this article, to obtain information on the implementation of sustainable innovation, a search equation was formulated in the SCOPUS database, focusing on the period from 2018 to 2023, with a total of 62 articles that are related to the topic addressed. Once the search of the published articles was carried out, seven categories were formed to classify the research topic of each of the publications with Bibliometrix software version 4.1.1 and the PRISMA method, according to the main objective and methodology used in each one. In this sense, 44% of the articles published are related to open innovation, and 26% of the articles are focused on sustainable business models. At the end of the analysis of the implementation of innovation according to the articles consulted, it was possible to establish the fact that sustainable innovation gave rise to some important work in the mitigation of adverse impacts.

Keywords: sustainability; innovation; eco-innovation; sustainable innovation; processes; products (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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