The relationship between innovation and sustainability: A meta-analytic study

By E. Kuzma, Luccas Santin Padilha, Simone Sehnem, Dulcimar José Julkovski, D. Roman. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020

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Abstract The objective of this study is to analyze the effects of innovation on the performance of organizational sustainability, as well as on the environmental, economic and social dimensions. The search was done using various data collection sources, such as Scopus, WoS, Science Direct, Emerald, Sage, Wiley Online Library and Proquest. The research findings indicate that innovation positively impacts sustainability performance. The strongest and most favorable correlations occurred between economic innovation and sustainability performance and between environmental innovation and sustainability performance. Thus, the main contributions of the study are associated with: a) the existence of a positive and strong relationship between innovation and sustainability performance; b) evidence of innovation effect size on sustainability performance (combined effect size coefficient at r = 0.529 (p-value

Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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