This volume provides a management concept for sustainable innovation management in commercial and governmental organizations. It provides answers to the question how people, teams, projects, companies and governments can shape the innovation process towards sustainability while maintaining or improving a profitable financial performance.A paradigm shift is happening at this moment. Firms and consumers are aware of the fact that they cause environmental pollution, depletion of resources andare responsible for the dangers involved. At the same time awareness is growing that they need to and will develop the appropriate solutions in the time tocome. The idea that sustainable, cyclic businesses are more logical than consumption-oriented and waste-dumping ones seems fascinating to a growing number of people. For this change to happen new thinking and behavior is needed.In Managing Environmentally Sustainable Innovation, Bossink evaluates the innovation chain in a process of five consecutive stages, articulates five levelsat which people collectively manage the chain, and analyzes the interplay between the two. Acquainting the reader with the complexities of innovation, as well as which complexities are active in the management of environmental sustainability, this book offers guiding principles and a toolbox for the managementof environmentally sustainable innovation in construction.
- ISBN: 978-0-415-87971-2
- Editorial: Routledge
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha Publicación: 29/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés