Social, environmental, and economic dimensions of innovation capabilities: Theorizing from sustainable business
通过多案例研究，分析了技术开发、运营、管理和交易四种创新能力如何与企业的社会、环境和经济可持续性相关联，提出了每种能力包含三个维度的概念框架，对可持续企业和传统企业均有参考价值。
Abstract Although innovation capabilities are essential to increase companies' success and innovative performance, they are still underexplored regarding sustainability. This paper aims to analyze how Technology Development, Operations, Management, and Transaction innovation capabilities are interrelated with sustainable companies' social, environmental, and economic sustainability. We performed a multi‐case study comprising sustainable small enterprises from four industries: sustainable fashion, sustainable hosting, shared furniture, and renewable energy. From the results, we propose that each innovation capability has three dimensions: social, environmental, and economic. Each dimension has a set of components that can differ across capabilities. We then develop a conceptual scheme, a new theoretical lens that intertwines the literature on innovation capabilities and sustainability. We propose the concepts of Sustainable Technology Development Capability , Sustainable Operations Capability , Sustainable Management Capability , and Sustainable Transaction Capability . Our findings can assist sustainable businesses to improve, and traditional companies to build, sustainable innovation capabilities.