Business and Management in Asia: Digital Innovation and Sustainability

This book focuses on digital innovation and sustainability in the Asian region in the context of business and management. Managers and policy makers rely on digital technologies to face the region’s sustainability challenges and solve sustainability problems. From business perspective, sustainability is defined as the adoption of business strategies, activities, and operations that meet the needs of the firm and its stakeholder today while protecting, sustaining, and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future. Digital innovation refers to the application of digital technologies to existing business problems as well as the development of the firm’s strategy, culture, and human resources talent to deal and use digital technologies to solve sustainability issues. There is a consensus among scholars and practitioners that organizations need digital innovation to stay competitive. Businesses that are digital innovators consider new ways to solve old and new sustainability problems facing the Asian region. This book, with its practical examples, gives the reader impulses for new Asian’s approaches and encourages the readers to dare to think and act in new ways. 

This book is the first annual compilation of innovative ideas and valuable managerial solutions produced by the region’s managers and decision-makers who think and act creatively, helmed by Tobias Endress and Yuosre F. Badir from the School of Management at the Asian Institute of Technology.

Chapter 1. Rethinking Digital Innovations in the Lens Of Sustainability: Perspectives From Asian Consumers of Organic Olive Oil.- Chapter 2. Japanese Sogo Shosha Corporations and Hidden Champions' Barriers to Digital Transformation (Dx).- Chapter 3. Open Innovation Ecosystem in Asia.- Chapter 4. A New Era of Sustainable Innovation.- Chapter 5. Innovative Sustainable Business Models: A New Way to Recover Beyond the Pandemic.- Chapter 6. Technology Integration Within Women-Owned Enterprises in Nepal.- Chapter 7. Real-Estate in the Digital Age: From Airbnb to Zealous Modern Farmers (Kind Of A-Z).- Chapter 8. Systemic Barriers to Financial Inclusion in the Banking Sector of Bangladesh.- Chapter 9.- Asia’s Sustainability and Digital Innovation Goals Proliferate by Executive Education and Corporate Training.

T obias Endress is Assistant Professor at the AIT School of Management and Program Director Business Analytics & Digital Transformation (MSc). He has more than 20 years of professional experience in banking and finance, project business, digital transformation, and change management. His former (non-academic) roles include project and program manager, product owner, and business analyst. He has completed professional training for banking and graduated in Computer Science and Business Administration (IBW) at VWA Frankfurt (Germany) and in Business Economics at Avans+ in Breda (Netherlands). He got Master’s Degree in Leadership in Digital Communication at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) and University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), as well as Doctorate in Business Administration at the University of Gloucestershire (UK). He is Fellow of the EuroMed Academy of Business. 

Yuosre F. Badir is Associate Professor of technology and innovation management and the Director of the Doctoral Programs (PhD & DBA) at the School of Management of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Prior to AIT, Dr. Badir worked as a Research Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Research Associate at the College of Management of Technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Visiting Scholar at New York University (NYU), and a Lecturer at the European University in Geneva. He received the degrees of Ph.D. in Management of Technology (2006) and Executive Master in Management of Logistical Systems (2000), both from the EPFL; M.Sc. in Project Management (1998) from the University of Putra Malaysia (UPM); and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (1993) from the University of Benghazi. His primary area of research focuses on managing innovation, technology, and digital transformation in emerging markets SMEs. He has published articles in, among others, Research Policy, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Journal of Technological Forecasting and Social Change.