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Received: 2024-03-15  |  Accepted: 2024-07-16  |  Published: 2024-09-30

Title

Exploring dynamic capabilities and green innovations in born sustainable firms


Abstract

Born sustainable firms aim to regenerate the environment and drive positive societal changes since their establishment. Therefore, they need to leverage dynamic capabilities and their micro-foundations to reach their strategic aims. This paper investigates how dynamic capabilities—and their micro-foundations—influence the transition of such firms towards carbon neutrality. It assumes a holistic approach, analyzing the contribution of the firm’s ecosystem to the development of its dynamic capabilities. Finally, the role of green innovations on the path toward carbon neutrality is evaluated. The adopted research method is based on a single longitudinal case study concerning a small organic wine-born sustainable firm implementing a sustainable and circular business model. Our findings clearly show that a firm's dynamic capabilities—belonging to the sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring clusters—play a critical role even in the case of micro and small companies, which are rarely investigated in the extant literature. However, due to the traditional resource poverty characterizing such companies, dynamic capabilities must be rooted in micro-foundations developed through interactions with partners within the firm's ecosystem. At the same time, developed capabilities allow the company to create and exploit a set of green innovations, which, in turn, push forward the net zero goal.


Keywords

dynamic capabilities, born sustainable firm, ecosystem, green innovation, wine sector, sustainability


JEL classifications

L10 , L26 , L66 , Q56


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/1224


DOI


Pages

152-168


Funding

This work has been funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU under the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) National Innovation Ecosystem grant ECS00000041 - VITALITY - CUP E13C22001060006. Project title: “VITALITY - Innovation, digitalisation and sustainability for the diffused economy in Central Italy (Ecosistema di Innovazione, Digitalizzazione e Sostenibilità per l'Economia Diffusa nell'Italia Centrale)”

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Authors

Mura, Rita
University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy https://www.univaq.it
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Vicentini, Francesca
University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy https://www.uniroma4.it
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Fratocchi, Luciano
University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy https://www.univaq.it
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Botti, Ludovico Maria
Azienda Biologica Trebotti, Castiglione in Teverina, Italy https://trebotti.it
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Chiriacò, Maria Vincenza
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Lecce, Italy https://www.cmcc.it
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

12


Number

1


Issue date

September 2024


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

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