A validated measurement scale for sustainable product innovation performance

Measuring sustainable innovation is one of the most prominent issues in the literature on sustainable innovation. Although there are some studies on measuring environmental innovation, research on measuring sustainable innovation is at a primitive stage and has not yet reached the expected maturity. The purpose of this study is to develop a validated scale for measuring sustainable product innovation performance. For this purpose, literature was thoroughly reviewed to obtain measurement items and a web-based questionnaire was prepared to collect data from manufacturing companies in Turkey. The scale development process was followed to obtain the final measurement scale by using explanatory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The scale is the first known validated scale to measure sustainable product innovation performance in manufacturing companies. This scale can be used by researchers working on sustainable innovation to test the relationships between various organizational concepts and by manufacturing executives to evaluate the sustainable product innovation performance of their organizations.