The Central Role of the Organisational Innovation in Creating Sustainable Organisation and Development: A Review

Abstract

This paper reviews the main contributions of organisational innovation in the literature towards bringing a sustainable organisation and development. The review basically illustrates four main interrelated concepts: organisational innovation, organisational performance, sustainable organisation and sustainable development, with their relationships among them. This paper also demonstrates that based on social, economical and environmental performance, the relationship between organisational innovation and organisational sustainability involves some important aspects concerning organisational innovation and its diverse components and outcomes; and the integration of every organisational innovation with the triple bottom line approach leads to develop a sustainable organisational innovation framework. This review also suggests that an organisation must transform its organizational innovation into a sustainable state (known as sustain-centric-innovation) to reflect its sustainable organisational performance that will help become sustainable organisation and then finally lead to achieve its sustainable development. Using the framework established from the existing literature, this paper recommends how diverse empirical studies can model and investigate the relationships among the variables: organisational innovation, sustainable organisation and sustainable development.