Eco-Innovation Enablers and Typology in Green Furniture Manufacturing

Innovation

In extant management literature, innovation is perceived as a relatively new concept (Türker, 2012). However, innovation is no longer a new concept and phenomenon to popular belief. Türker (2012) argued that innovation is as old as humankind itself. According to Fagerberg, Mowery, and Nelson (2006), innovation seems to be something integrally “human” about the tendency to deliberate about better ways of doing things and practice in reality. This deep-rooted and well-established concept had been worked by scientists during the history of the social sciences.

According to Schumpeter (1934), innovation is defined as “to produce means to combine materials and forces within our reach. To produce other things, or the same things by a different method, means to combine these materials and forces differently”. To explain the statement above, Schumpeter (1934) used the concept named “new combinations” for his explanation. It is a strong connection between the definition of innovation that commonly being adopted today and Schumpeter’s “new combinations”. The “new combinations” can be any new product with which customers are not familiar; a new technique of production that not yet being practised in the branch of manufacture concerned; a new supply source of raw materials and resources; a new target marketplace; or a new organization of any industry (Schumpeter, 1934). Therefore, “new goods” do not fully reflect the meaning of innovation.