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Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park

Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park

Professor

Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park

Effect of sustainability-oriented innovation practices on the overall organisational performance : an empirical examination

Author

  • Matjaž Maletič
  • Damjan Maletič
  • Jens J. Dahlgaard
  • Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park
  • Boštjan Gomišček

Summary, in English

One major means to address corporate sustainability practices in organisations are sustainability-oriented innovation practices, which tend to result in significantly improved products, services, processes or even management systems. Prior research has widely discussed the relevant issues about integrating sustainability aspects into innovation process; however, little empirical research has been conducted to analyse the link between sustainability-oriented innovation practices and the overall organisational performance. This paper addresses this gap by exploring the underlying structure of sustainability-oriented innovation practices as well as their effects on the particular performance dimensions (i.e. economic performance, quality performance, innovation performance, environmental performance and social performance). The large-scale web-based survey yielded 266 usable responses encompassing both the manufacturing and service industries across 5 countries: Germany, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Spain. The results of the regression analysis demonstrate that sustainability-oriented innovation practices are positively related with the overall organisational performance. The empirical evidence suggests that when organisations strongly emphasise sustainability practices, they can improve both economic and non-financial performance. From a practical perspective, the findings of the study may provide a clue regarding how organisations can embed sustainability aspects in their innovation processes with the aim of improving their performance.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2016-09-02

Language

English

Pages

1171-1190

Publication/Series

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volume

27

Issue

9-10

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • corporate sustainability
  • empirical study
  • organisational performance
  • sustainability-oriented innovation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1478-3363