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CONTEXTS OF SOI Figure 18 illustrates the number of papers from our sample that address each of the three different contexts of SOI: Operational Optimization, Organizational Transformation and Systems Building. Studies predominantly address Operational Optimization, and none were found that provided empirical instances of Systems Building. The latter finding either results from inadequacies in our search or serves to confirm the popularly held view that a truly sustainable company does not yet exist and is unlikely to exist until wider systems change occurs (Lamming et al., 1999). Nevertheless, the 28 Organizational Transformation studies — with one exception, all published since 2000 — indicate a trajectory toward Systems Building and provide evidence of firms’ activities in pursuit of that objective. Figure 18 NUMBER OF STUDIES ADDRESSING THE THREE CONTEXTS OF SOI Operational Optimization Organizational Transformation Innovating for Sustainability 86 Mix Systems Building 0 2 28 70
appendix 3: definitions of SOI This review identified multiple definitions relating to SOI. The most salient are described below. ECO-INNNOVATION New products and processes that provide customer and business value and significantly decrease environmental impacts (Fussler & James, 1996). New products and processes that provide customer value, while using fewer resources and resulting in reduced environmental impacts (Johansson & Magnusson, 1998). New or modified processes, techniques, practices, systems and products aimed at preventing or reducing environmental damage (Rennings, 2000). Innovation that improves environmental performance (Arnold & Hockerts, 2011). Overarching concept that provides direction and vision for pursuing the overall societal changes needed to achieve sustainable development. Eco-innovation reflects an explicit emphasis on a reduction of environmental impact, whether such an effect is intended or not….It is not limited to innovation in products, processes, marketing methods and organizational methods, but also includes innovation in social and institutional structures (Machiba, 2010). New or modified processes, techniques, practices, systems and products to avoid or reduce environmental harms. Eco-innovations may be developed with or without the explicit aim of reducing environmental harm (Halila & Rundquist, 2011). Eco-innovation is the production, assimilation or exploitation of a product, production process, service or management or business method that is novel to the organization (developing or adopting it) and which results, throughout its life cycle, in a reduction of environmental risk, pollution and other negative impacts of resource use (including energy use) compared to relevant alternatives (Buttol et al., 2012). ECOLOGICAL INNOVATION The development and implementation of new products (environmental technologies), new production processes, new resources, new markets and new systems (e.g. transportation of goods), and all of them integrate economy and ecology, i.e. introduce ecological aspects in economic strategies (Blättel-Mink, 1998). Innovating for Sustainability 87
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introduction This systematic review
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origins of SOI and its relation to
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