Sustainable product development requires integrating eco- and open innovation. Traditional Design Thinking (DT), while effective for iterative product improvement, often lacks the capability to address environmental considerations comprehensively, necessitating new approaches to balance consumer...

Lightweight design is regarded as a technological approach to engineer products in a more energy and material efficient- and, therefore, resource-saving way. In this sense, high-tech multi-materials, also referred to as composites, have become very popular for many decades due to their...

This research focuses on Chinese listed companies to explore the influence of green-oriented strategies and green innovation on corporate productivity. Using empirical data from 2011 to 2022, the study investigates the positive effects of executives' green perceptions on new quality productivity...

The increasing environmental pressures on businesses have driven a global shift toward sustainability, particularly within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Despite the growing adoption of open innovation and circular economy (CE) practices, a gap remains in understanding how open...

Green practices are becoming increasingly important throughout the world. The performance of SMEs is becoming a crucial issue because of increasing awareness of consumers about environmentally friendly products; therefore, enterprises not following green practices may face a significant decline...

Growing corporate social responsibility requirements have compelled manufacturing organizations to embed sustainability in their business models. Consequently, firms focus on designing and producing products using sustainable means to bring new products to the market that are environmentally...

Climate change and environmental crises are currently affecting the living environment of both people and the planet in general. This necessitates businesses to have a prompt and effective response to minimize or improve the harmful effects that lead to environmental imbalance and fulfill...

Burgeoning ecological crises of food production sector has made the environmental impact evaluation of various food products a sustainability imperative. Specifically, in pursuit of identifying a sustainable production model of high-demand food items, implementing a comparative life cycle...

The purpose of this study is to identify elements that influence the sale of generic pharmaceutical products during their life cycle in order to achieve more comprehensive planning and to prevent a decline stage of the product life cycle (PLC). We used a system dynamic model to identify the...

The innovation ecosystem concept has been widely used as a framework to explain innovation activities within different industries. Despite the usefulness of this approach, the concept is under-theorized, especially with regard to the methodological issues. This article presents a new approach in...