Why sustainability is now the key driver of innovation

By Ram Nidumolu, C. Prahalad, M. R. Rangaswami. IEEE Engineering Management Review, 2013

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Sustainable business model adoption among S&P 500 firms: A longitudinal content analysis study (2018, background): “This builds on the notion that business model innovation is an iterative process of experimenting, piloting, debriefing and learning, and scaling (Nidumolu et al., 2009; Lüdeke-Freund et al., 2016).”
Sustainable business models as boundary-spanning systems of value transfers (2018, background): “As the core source of value creation in society, a prominent part of achieving higher levels of sustainability should be accomplished by organizations (e.g., Nidumolu et al., 2009; Porter and Van der Linde, 1995).”
Corporate sustainability: an integrative definition and framework to evaluate corporate practice and guide academic research (2014, methodology): “…they had been proactive and begun the activities necessary to comply with the California Resources Board’s proposed fuel and emissions guidelines in 2002, they would be in a much better position to be competitive when these guidelines begin to be enforced in the US in 2016 (Nidumolu et al., 2009).”
Radical Innovation for Sustainability: The Power of Strategy and Open Innovation (2016, background): “Studies show that large firms most often begin with incremental innovations before maturing towards radical SOI (Nidumolu et al., 2009), while others (a minority group) start with the goal of radical change, organizing semi-autonomous business units or spin-offs (Schaltegger et al.”