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Knowledge, Innovation and Sustainability: Past Literature and Future Trends

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Knowledge, Innovation and Sustainable Development in Organizations

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Knowledge, innovation and sustainability are topics very well recognized in the business and management literature and beyond of this field. These subjects seem fundamental to the companies for them to survive and to win in an increasingly globalized world, but how do they appear interconnected on the literature? As research in this area has related these concepts and how these themes have emerged over time, to demonstrate their relevance to this field of science is one of the objectives of this study. Therefore, our study aims to map scientific publications, intellectual structure and research trends on knowledge, innovation and sustainability. Our contribution is precisely to find the theoretical approaches present in the different investigations on this field and to promote the discussion of future agenda.

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  1. Management and Economics Department, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

    Cristina Fernandes & João J. Ferreira

  2. Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique & NECE- Research Unit, Covilhã, Portugal

    Pedro M. Veiga

  3. Department of Business Administration, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Marta Peris-Ortiz

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  3. Department of Management Control and Information Systems, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

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Fernandes, C., Ferreira, J.J., Veiga, P.M., Peris-Ortiz, M. (2019). Knowledge, Innovation and Sustainability: Past Literature and Future Trends. In: Peris-Ortiz, M., Ferreira, J.J., Merigó Lindahl, J.M. (eds) Knowledge, Innovation and Sustainable Development in Organizations. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74881-8_2

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