Business Models for Sustainability

Schaltegger, Stefan; Hansen, Erik G.; Lüdeke‐Freund, Florian

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“…Hence, the SBSC is generally not a tool to trigger radical corporate transformation but, if that is the strategy, it could serve as a method to help implement aspects of transformation. Many other approaches are much better suited to analyse and initiate radical change in companies (see Table 1), such as business model innovations for sustainability (Schaltegger et al 2016a;b;Boons and Lüdeke-Freund 2013;Stubbs and Cocklin 2008), sustainable entrepreneurship (e.g. Hockerts and Wüstenhagen 2010;Schaltegger and Wagner 2011), and sustainability-oriented innovation (Hansen et al 2009;Hall 2002;Adams et al 2012;Paech 2007).…”

Section: The Sbsc As a Tool For Radical Change Towards Sustainability?mentioning

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“…Sustainability scholars adopted the business model perspective because it allows them to explain how companies can overcome barriers against implementing sustainability improvements when they go against the existing business model as represented by the value proposition, infrastructure, customer relationship and financial logic. Adapting or redeveloping the business model to support sustainability make possible changes in the organisation and product portfolio Lüdeke-Freund (2009), Boons and Lüdeke-Freund (2013), Schaltegger et al (2012) and Schaltegger et al (2016a) Organisational ambidexterity for driving sustainability innovation Ambidexterity is about creating organisational structures and processes for enabling companies to simultaneously pursue two innovation modes that often conflict-incremental and radical innovation. Recently, the ambidexterity concept has been adopted by scholars in sustainability and innovation research in order to analyse how conventional firms could embark towards sustainability while also retaining their existing core business , Seebode et al (2012), Wicki (2015) and Wicki et al (2015) Sustainability Balanced Scorecards and their Architectures: Irrelevant or Misunderstood?…”

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Sustainability Balanced Scorecards and their Architectures: Irrelevant or Misunderstood?

Hansen

Schaltegger

2017

J Bus Ethics

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In a recent systematic review of the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) literature in this journal, we developed a typology of architectures as a basis for the process of SBSC design, implementation, use, and evolution. This paper addresses a comment by designed to stimulate further research. We argue that the existing literature demonstrates that the SBSC management tool can play an important role in corporate sustainability. The SBSC architectures-as representations of goals and priorities-form an integral and iterative part of the corporate sustainability strategy-making process and therefore cannot be isolated from it. However, the concept as such should not be overloaded (e.g. as a tool for radical change). In this paper, we first reflect on the potentials and constraints of the SBSC in relation to (1) radical or transformational change and (2) measuring performance outcomes on the level of humanearth systems. Second, we discuss the importance of SBSC architecture concerning (1) how it enables the integration of sustainability into business organisations; (2) how both strictly hierarchical cause-and-effect chains and less hierarchical designs can allow companies to seek inclusive profits; and (3) the contingency-based use of generic architectures (i.e. using the sustainability strategy and value system to determine a fitting architecture) in contrast to its use as a diagnostic tool (i.e. the architecture revealing the sustainability strategy and value system).

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Section: The Sbsc As a Tool For Radical Change Towards Sustainability?mentioning

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Sustainability Balanced Scorecards and their Architectures: Irrelevant or Misunderstood?

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Schaltegger

2017

J Bus Ethics

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“…The term 'sustainability' has mostly been used before to measure the economic viability of businesses. It has only been a couple of years ago, when researchers started to investigate the potential contribution of business models to sustainable patterns (Schaltegger et al, 2016). To understand the motives of business stakeholders for establishing socially responsible companies, we must first understand their drivers to engage in business model innovation.…”

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“…Researchers mostly agree that the organizational value of these models is extended towards social and environmental values. Based on this principle and other relevant literature sources, Schaltegger et al (2016) identify a business model for sustainability as an instrument which "helps describing, analyzing, managing, and communicating (i) a company's sustainable value proposition to its customers, and all other stakeholders, (ii) how it creates and delivers this value, (iii) and how it captures economic value while maintaining or regenerating natural, social, and economic capital beyond its organizational boundaries." It is obvious that the first two aspects rely on regular business model definitions.…”

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Business Model Innovation as a Tool to Establish Corporate Sustainability

Fogarassy

Horváth

Magda

2017

Visegrad Journal on Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development

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Considering the frequently changing business environment, staying competitive on the current markets takes more efforts from companies in the 21 st century. Conducting only incremental product innovation does not meet the market criteria anymore. The successful entrepreneurs of the future must focus more on the design of their business models to gain superior economic performance. Besides the market, society has also raised a major requirement towards companies, which is being socially responsible. The word 'sustainability' regarding businesses might confuse a lot of people as several aspects of the term reach beyond its traditional economic interpretation. The present study provides a clear explanation and furthermore examines its application at a corporate level. This paper aims to present how business model innovation does not simply lead to economic success but its generated value can be extended to social and environmental aspects as well.

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“…Interaction with society through more community involvement and a focus on environmental issues is one notable feature of these BMs. Several researchers have revealed the limitations of BMs focused exclusively on profit [14][15][16].…”

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Towards a Conceptual Framework of Sustainable Business Model Innovation in the Agri-Food Sector: A Systematic Literature Review

2017

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This paper aims to increase our understanding of sustainable business model innovation in the agri-food sector in terms of its theoretical and practical approaches for sustainability and their degree of complexity and maturity. The paper is based on a systematic literature review of 570 journal articles on business models and business model innovation published between 1990 and 2014. Of these articles, only 21 have business model innovation as their main focus. The review shows that research interest in the agri-food sector has increased in these years. The paper proposes a conceptual framework for sustainable business model innovation in the agri-food sector that can be used to meet the challenges encountered in taking a sustainability perspective.

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Business Models for Sustainability

Cited by 756 publications

References 25 publications

Sustainability Balanced Scorecards and their Architectures: Irrelevant or Misunderstood?

Sustainability Balanced Scorecards and their Architectures: Irrelevant or Misunderstood?

Business Model Innovation as a Tool to Establish Corporate Sustainability

Towards a Conceptual Framework of Sustainable Business Model Innovation in the Agri-Food Sector: A Systematic Literature Review

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