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Disruptive Innovation and Sustainable Growth

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 6786

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Steven Si

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Guest Editor
1. Zeigler College of Business, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA 17815, USA
2. School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, China
Interests: entrepreneurship and innovation
Prof. Dr. Raymond Liu

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Guest Editor
Department of Marketing, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
Interests: marketing innovation; business model innovation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Economic shifts have caused today's economy and companies to become largely driven by innovations. One of these innovations is disruptive technologies/startups based on disruptive technology and innovation. The impact of such innovation on sustainable growth/development is either positive or negative, and this is an important research question/issue.

Disruptive innovation theory was originally proposed by Christensen (1997). He initially described a concept of "disruptive technology", which mainly referred to the kinds of technology that had inferior attributes to those existing among mainstream technology values but alternatively focused on some neglected attributes. Additionally, as the technologies improved over time, they slowly came to surpass the dominant technologies in specific markets. The concept of disruptive technology suggests that the winning technology is not necessarily a radical or superior technology. A dominant design is generated through a process of social, economic and political negotiation and selection. Later, the concept of disruptive technology was extended into broader applications, such as disruptive product innovations, disruptive business model innovations and others. The concept of sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals, while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. Currently, the concept of sustainable development has shifted its focus more towards economic development, social development and environmental protection.

This Special Issue seeks to develop a platform for business scholars, innovators, entrepreneurs and managers who are in a position to offer valuable perspectives to these particular research areas—disruptive innovation and sustainable development. The guest editors are excited to receive manuscripts that use qualitative and/or quantitative methods and adopt novel theoretical perspectives. Topics include but are not limited to:

  1. Disruptive innovation and sustainable growth in digital economies. What are the differences in disruptive innovation and sustainable growth between matured economies and emerging economies?
  2. Do the mixed models of disruptive innovation, sustainable growth and social impact entrepreneurship generate a positive change in society?
  3. Disruptive innovation, sustainable growth and regional development.
  4. Disruptive innovation and sustainable growth in sharing economies. How does disruptive innovation enrich traditional technology management?
  5. Disruptive innovation, sustainable development and digitally inclusive models to social change.
  6. The relationship between disruptive innovation, sustainable development and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
  7. Disruptive innovation/entrepreneurship are perceived as higher-risk environments. If this is true, does this higher risk generate a greater creativity for high-technology companies?
  8. What is the role of sustainable growth/development regarding social entrepreneurship?
  9. Does social disruptive innovation/entrepreneurship generate the intended positive effects for the society?
  10. Poverty reduction, sustainable growth and environment protection in digital economics.
  11. What is the role of public policy in encouraging disruptive innovation and sustainable development?

Questions regarding the Special Issue can be addressed to: Steven Si (ssi@bloomu.edu), or Raymond Liu (raymond.liu@umb.edu).

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Steven Si
Prof. Dr. Raymond Liu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • disruptive innovation
  • sustainable growth
  • sustainable development
  • digital technology
  • economic development and social change and development

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Role of ChatGPT and Skilled Workers for Business Sustainability: Leadership Motivation as the Moderator
by Demetris Vrontis, Ranjan Chaudhuri and Sheshadri Chatterjee
Sustainability 2023, 15(16), 12196; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151612196 - 09 Aug 2023
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ChatGPT is an AI tool that was primarily developed by OpenAI with the support of its GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 platforms and large language models. ChatGPT has been fine-tuned with both supervised and reinforcement learning technology. Various types of organizations are interested in adopting [...] Read more.
ChatGPT is an AI tool that was primarily developed by OpenAI with the support of its GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 platforms and large language models. ChatGPT has been fine-tuned with both supervised and reinforcement learning technology. Various types of organizations are interested in adopting applications supported by GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 platforms, but there is an acute shortage of trained workers in this field. Research is needed to investigate the role of this very new technology and skilled workers in maintaining business sustainability. Also, few studies have investigated the role of leadership motivation in accelerating business sustainability. Therefore, this study aims to examine the role of ChatGPT and skilled employees in business sustainability. It also investigates the moderating impact of leadership motivation on business sustainability. With the help of resource-based view (RBV) and the extant literature, a theoretical model was developed, which was then validated using the PLS-SEM technique on feedback from 209 respondents. The study finds that both ChatGPT and skilled workers have significant impact on improving business sustainability. The study also demonstrates that leadership motivation significantly impacts business sustainability. Full article
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The Influence of Government Green Development Policy on a Firm’s Disruptive Innovation
by Zhengda Xu, Haiyao Liu and Song Lin
Sustainability 2022, 14(23), 16040; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142316040 - 01 Dec 2022
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Government policies have impacts on the disruptive innovation behavior of local companies, especially the green development policies. This paper is based on institutional theory, using data from 170 Chinese manufacturing entrepreneurs to verify that local governments’ green development policies have an effect on [...] Read more.
Government policies have impacts on the disruptive innovation behavior of local companies, especially the green development policies. This paper is based on institutional theory, using data from 170 Chinese manufacturing entrepreneurs to verify that local governments’ green development policies have an effect on firms’ disruptive innovation behavior. Based on the empirical results, we find that entrepreneurs in regions with green or sustainable development policies are more likely to engage in disruptive innovation behavior; the influence will be stronger when the firm size is bigger. The study actually demonstrates that public policy about sustainable development enacted by local governments has a significant impact on the disruptive innovation behavior of firms. The findings of this paper enriches the research on the antecedents of disruptive innovation behavior adds to the theoretical framework of disruptive innovation and institutional theory, and supplements the specific embodiment of exploring disruptive innovation in the manufacturing industry. At the practical level, this paper provides theoretical guidance for entrepreneurs to choose the right regional entrepreneurship at the personal level. In addition, it provides the theoretical basis for entrepreneurs’ strategic decision-making at the entrepreneurial level, and for local governments to encourage entrepreneurial development and regional economic prosperity at the government level. Full article
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The Effects of Open Innovation at the Network Level
by Lu Cheng
Sustainability 2022, 14(23), 15519; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142315519 - 22 Nov 2022
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To open the black box of how open innovation works at the network level, we particularly focused on the effects of TFs’ collective openness of external knowledge search on RIN innovation performance in different innovation environments of disruptiveness. To conduct the research, we [...] Read more.
To open the black box of how open innovation works at the network level, we particularly focused on the effects of TFs’ collective openness of external knowledge search on RIN innovation performance in different innovation environments of disruptiveness. To conduct the research, we adopted a bottom-up research approach and designed an agent-based simulation model. The simulation results show that either collective breadth or depth exerts significant effects on the RIN innovation performance, and their effectiveness is significantly moderated by disruptiveness. Our results reveal the followings: (1) RIN innovation performance can be considerably enhanced by high collective openness, but it is not necessarily true that more collective openness is better, which reflects that the “inverted U-shaped” relationships broadly argued in firm-level open innovation studies also exists at the network level. (2) The effect of collective openness depends on the disruptiveness of innovation environment. The likelihood of a positive effect of collective openness on RIN innovation performance increases as the disruptiveness is enhanced. The trends of the polarization of individual TFs’ innovation performance in an RIN is alleviated as the disruptiveness is enhanced. Based on these findings, we give some guidance of innovation policymaking. When the industry is in its emerging stage, aggressive collective openness—high collective breadth and depth—aiming at achieving high RIN innovation performance is recommended. When the industry steps into its developing stage, directed collective openness—high collective depth and moderate collective breadth—aiming at fostering future industry leaders in the RIN is recommended. When the industry reaches its maturity, conservative collective openness—low collective depth and moderate collective breadth—aiming at maximum utilization of current RIN’s competitive advantages is recommended. Full article
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