Embracing the variety of sustainable business models: social entrepreneurship, corporate intrapreneurship, creativity, innovation, and other approaches to sustainability challenges

A Networked Analysis and Engineering Framework for New Business Models

“…New digital artifacts such as new information systems are embedded into socio-technical systems (STS) consisting of human, organizational, technological and social structures, which are enclosed by a societal context [5][6][7]. Beside general aims of participants in a business ecosystem such as monetary or other types of profit, the wide spread awareness of ecological challenges accompanied by recent developments in the area of ecological movements and their claim for sustainable development [8] fosters the need for strongly sustainable business models [9] (also denoted as New Business Models (NBM) [10,11]) and a general inclusion of these needs into approaches to design and manage their business models. In this regard, we follow Upward and Jones [9] (p. 17) and use the terms sustainable or strongly sustainable in conjunction with business models synonymously to emphasize the striving for "[.…”

“…The emerging discipline of New Business Models (NBM) is based on concepts of sustainable development as described above and incorporates economic, social, environmental and technical expertise in an interdisciplinary way to create sustainable business models. The underlying research community pursues the goal of developing sustainable and socially acceptable business models often triggered or enabled by new technologies [10,11]. As stated by Schaltegger et al [61] (p. 98) creating a sustainable business case "[.…”

A master plan for the implementation of sustainable enterprise resource planning systems (part I): concept and methodology

“…It can be seen from numerous efforts from the government level and public community through international conferences and institutions, such as Sustainability practice is imperative to resolving social and environmental issues (Dentchev, et al, 2015). A formal inception began in the 1980's with the publication of a new policy includes World Conversation Strategy (IUCN, 1980) and the Brundtland report in World Commission on Environment and Development of the United Nations (Brundtland, 1987).…”

Stimulating the diffusion of environmental technologies through export

“…Business models have received increasing scholarly attention over the last 15 years, with several definitions and approaches for describing business models being propounded in the related literature (Dentchev et al, 2015). Osterwalder and Pigneur (2010 p.14) present the business model as "the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers and capture value."…”

“…How does the business obtain revenue? Despite these different perspectives on the definition of business models, overall, most scholars agree that the business model underscores a systemic and holistic approach to understanding how a firm creates and captures value (Dentchev et al, 2015).…”