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CALL FOR PAPERS
JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT & INNOVATION
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Sustainability in Natural Resource-Intensive Economies
Dear Colleagues
On behalf of the Guest editors of J
ournal of Technology Management & Innovation, we would like to cordially invite you to consider participating in the special issue entitled "
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Sustainability in Natural Resource-Intensive Economies".
Natural Resource-Intensive Economies can be found throughout the world, although natural-resource-led development is dominant in emergent countries, several regions of developed nations currently depend on natural resources. Lack of structural change, non-sustainable growth, and non-inclusive growth are traditional features of NRIEs. The editors seek manuscripts that explore the role of innovation and entrepreneurship for sustainability in contexts where prosperity relies on the exploitation of natural resources, the tension between needs and limits is taken to the limit and the notion of sustainable development can be deemed as an implausible oxymoron.
A suggestive but not exhaustive list of questions and topics includes:
- What is the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in the transition towards a sustainable NRIE
- Organizational processes for sustainable entrepreneurship in NRIEs
- Social and local embeddedness of the emergence of sustainable (high-growth) businesses in NRIEs
- How do sustainable new ventures build the legitimacy in contexts where the logic of prosperity does not resonate with environmental protection?
- Measurement of social and environmental impacts in non-regulated markets
- What is the role of green innovations and niches in the transition to sustainable NRIEs?
- How do sustainable innovations face and overcome institutional paradoxes and dilemmas imposed by NRIEs?
- How do or can new and established entrepreneurs and firms create shared sustainable values and identities in NRIEs?
- How do sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship create business solutions during commodity boom periods?
- Are innovative social/sustainable entrepreneurship initiatives a suitable solution for NRIEs?
- What is the role of sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship in resolving the curse of natural resources? (the observation that countries rich in natural resources tend to perform badly)
- What are the central drivers of sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship in NRIEs?
Please note that the submission deadline is September 01st, 2014. More information and instructions for submission can be found
here
Please feel free to forward the Call for Papers to any colleagues who might be interested.
Best regards
Pablo Muñoz, Ph.D. Director, The Network for Business Sustainability: Chile
Av. Diagonal Las Torres 2700, Peñalolén, Santiago - Chile
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