The Relationship between Eco-Innovation and Smart Working as Support for Sustainable Management

Nowadays, firms have to face challenging economical cirses, like the one caused by COVID-19 pandemic, where volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are manifested. Strategic management is seen as of key approaches that can choose implement sustainable smart working (on support Internet Things technologies) global competition. In this article, a response current crisis, we study influence Smart Working on Eco-innovation within EU 28 countries. Specifically, evaluate relationship between index for countries Working, using clustering analysis. The results show increased labor productivity employees’ eco-innovation associated, higher extent, with companies agreeing flexible comfortable environment. These agree introduction special programs such from home. We also prove implemented innovative leaders gaining economic sustainability. This provides several theoretical practical contributions. provide (i) an overview management, including diverse methodological perspectives; (ii) recommendation innovation model through bilateral collaboration constructs performant strategies.