Sustainability-Oriented Business Model Assessment—A Conceptual Foundation

Lüdeke‐Freund, Florian; Freudenreich, Birte; Schaltegger, Stefan; Saviuc, Iolanda; Stock, Marten

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-37879-8_7

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“…This field demonstrates that a successful transition to more sustainable business practice requires a robust business model which targets integrated activities towards automatic spillover type triple-bottom-line value creation (Baumgartner and Ebner 2010;Bocken et al 2014). However, limited research has empirically explored organization set up with triple-bottom-line value capture at their core, such as social enterprises (Lüdeke-Freund et al 2017;Margiono et al 2017), and none explore hybrids with differentiated activities, or contingent value spillover .…”

Section: Sustainable Business Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Balancing a Hybrid Business Model: The Search for Equilibrium at Cafédirect

2018

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This paper investigates the difficulties of creating economic, social, and environmental values when operating as a hybrid venture. Drawing on hybrid organizing and sustainable business model research, it explores the implications of alternative forms of business model experimented with by farmer owned, fairtrade social enterprise Cafédirect. Responding to changes and challenges in the market and societal environment, Cafédirect has tried multiple business model innovations to deliver on all three forms of value capture, with differing levels of success. This longitudinal case study, therefore, provides a contribution to our understanding of how business models enact hybrid mission, providing a platform for triple-bottom-line value capture. In doing so, we are able to expand on the normative understandings of integrating hybrid objectives, and the complications of multiple types of value capture.

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Section: Sustainable Business Modelsmentioning

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Balancing a Hybrid Business Model: The Search for Equilibrium at Cafédirect

2018

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“…Although sustainability is a contested concept, sustainable entrepreneurship focuses on the identification of new business opportunities which result in more sustainable products, or processes, than currently available on the market (Deans and McMullen, 2007;Schaltegger et al, 2016). Lüdeke-Freund et al (2017) identifies these sustainable entrepreneurs making a voluntary commitment to create social and environmental value, beyond that of a conventional business venture, whilst simultaneously creating economic value. This however creates the potential for tension between these different forms of value creation.…”

Section: Sustainable Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating hybridity and business model theory in sustainable entrepreneurship

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This paper investigates the means by which business model innovations help mitigate hybrid tensions in sustainable entrepreneurs. By integrating the sustainable business models, and hybrid entrepreneurship literature it highlights the overlap between the discourses in these fields. An in-depth exploration of ten sustainable entrepreneurs then demonstrates common business model innovation to ameliorated hybridity related tensions.

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“…However, it is hard to believe that companies possess the needed knowledge and understanding on the long-term impacts of their operations on sustainability. But, nevertheless, they need to understand the importance of their business decisions on the sustainability performance of their company as well as how to combine technologies, processes and markets in order to improve their performances, also with respect to sustainability [28].…”

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Key Drivers and Skills Needed for Innovative Companies Focused on Sustainability

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Sustainable innovation at a company level drives economic, environmental and social improvement at a national level. Recent evidence has shown that businesses have increased the managerial attention and investments dedicated to sustainability. This paper aims to identify the most important drivers supporting companies to develop innovation activities oriented towards making the business models more sustainable. We explore microdata from the 2016 Innobarometer “EU Business Innovation Trends” (Flash Eurobarometer 433), covering 8635 companies from 29 countries. Using statistical classification methods, we identify the most important factors that are related to innovation activities that have the potential to shape the efficiency of raw material usage and environmental protection. The most relevant factors emphasized by our analysis are: innovation performance of the country (innovation), percentage of the company turnover invested in innovation activities, percentage of total turnover invested in acquisition of machines, equipment, software or licenses, percentage of total turnover invested in company reputation and branding, including web design, percentage of total turnover invested in software development.. Also, our analysis highlights the skills that are needed the most by companies in order to support their innovation activities targeting sustainability. Our results are useful for better understanding the attention that is given to sustainability by innovative companies, and what the main factors that boost innovation dedicated to sustainability are.

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Sustainability-Oriented Business Model Assessment—A Conceptual Foundation

Cited by 37 publications

References 74 publications

Balancing a Hybrid Business Model: The Search for Equilibrium at Cafédirect

Balancing a Hybrid Business Model: The Search for Equilibrium at Cafédirect

Integrating hybridity and business model theory in sustainable entrepreneurship

Key Drivers and Skills Needed for Innovative Companies Focused on Sustainability

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