TY - JOUR
T1 - Microfoundations of companies' dynamic capabilities for environmentally sustainable innovation
T2 - Case study insights from high-tech innovation in science-based companies
AU - Mousavi, Seyedesmaeil
AU - Bossink, Bart
AU - van Vliet, Mario
PY - 2019/2
Y1 - 2019/2
N2 - To achieve sustainable development, companies are increasingly putting an emphasis on the creation and the promotion of environmentally sustainable innovations. Environmentally sustainable innovation often involves a significant shift in a new strategic direction. This paper studies this shift from a dynamic capabilities perspective and aims to identify the microfoundations of science-based companies' dynamic capabilities for high-tech environmentally sustainable innovations. It investigates the development of high-tech environmentally sustainable innovations in two distinctive science-based companies. To scholars, this study provides an in-depth process analysis, over time, of how and why microfoundations of dynamic capabilities influence the development of a science-based company's high-tech environmentally sustainable innovations. To practitioners in science-based firms, this process study can function as a frame of reference, enabling the tailoring of a strategy for high-tech environmentally sustainable innovation.
AB - To achieve sustainable development, companies are increasingly putting an emphasis on the creation and the promotion of environmentally sustainable innovations. Environmentally sustainable innovation often involves a significant shift in a new strategic direction. This paper studies this shift from a dynamic capabilities perspective and aims to identify the microfoundations of science-based companies' dynamic capabilities for high-tech environmentally sustainable innovations. It investigates the development of high-tech environmentally sustainable innovations in two distinctive science-based companies. To scholars, this study provides an in-depth process analysis, over time, of how and why microfoundations of dynamic capabilities influence the development of a science-based company's high-tech environmentally sustainable innovations. To practitioners in science-based firms, this process study can function as a frame of reference, enabling the tailoring of a strategy for high-tech environmentally sustainable innovation.
KW - corporate sustainability
KW - dynamic capabilities
KW - environmentally sustainable innovation
KW - high-tech
KW - microfoundations
KW - science-based firms
KW - sustainable development
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U2 - 10.1002/bse.2255
DO - 10.1002/bse.2255
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85057441307
SN - 0964-4733
VL - 28
SP - 366
EP - 387
JO - Business Strategy and the Environment
JF - Business Strategy and the Environment
IS - 2
ER -