The governance of sustainable business model innovation—An Ordonomic Approach

Pies, Ingo; Schultz, Felix Carl

doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2022.101246

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“…Adding to and expanding on the contemporary debate, this article highlights (once again) the conceptual distinction between moving along versus shifting a curve. As Figure 2 helps to illustrate, optimization means to move along a given marginal profit function (MP), 4 while governance innovation 5 means to shift these negatively sloped curves to the right (from MP 1 to MP 2 to MP 3 ) (Pies & Schultz, 2023).…”

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The circular economy growth machine: A critical perspective on “post‐growth” and “pro‐growth” circularity approaches

Schultz,

Pies

2023

J of Industrial Ecology

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This forum article contributes to the prospering debate in the circular economy (CE) community discussing whether—and to what extent—the CE is reconcilable with economic growth. Within this discourse about a functional CE, there exist two contesting perspectives. One argues in favor of pro‐growth circularity, the other in favor of post‐growth circularity. The aim of this article is to develop a line of argumentation that helps in reconciliating the two seemingly antagonistic perspectives. Toward that end, this article applies the method of “practical syllogism” that is well known in moral philosophy, since it can enlighten how normative and positive arguments can be structured to enable the formulation of well‐justified moral conclusions. With the help of this interdisciplinary impulse, the article aims at detecting logical errors in current reasoning and fostering discursive learning processes. The ensuing arguments provide vital implications on the macro level by highlighting four critical elements to facilitate a CE transition, namely an intensive growth trajectory, an internalization of negative externalities through creating (missing) markets, an institutional encouragement of spreading positive externalities, and a diffusion of rents from innovation to society by taking the profit motive into service for enabling sustainability goals. Complementarily, the article provides implications on the micro level by highlighting the necessity to develop supplementary management competencies, namely governance competence to realize argumentative clarification and governance competence to (re‐)configurate institutional structures. This article may serve as an incubator to ease new ways of thinking into academia and practice.

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“…Re‐balanced optimization versus governance: Moving along versus shifting the marginal profit function(s) at the micro level (inspired by Pies and Schultz, 2023). …”

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The circular economy growth machine: A critical perspective on “post‐growth” and “pro‐growth” circularity approaches

Schultz,

Pies

2023

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…Approximately one-third of studies analyze popular business models of large companies like Nestle (Nescafe, Nespresso), Starbucks, or Illy [15,[34][35][36][37][38], highlighting the lack of BMI research on coffee SMEs [39]. Three of the studies focus on smallholders proposing the inclusive business model involving the entire stakeholders as market actors as the way forward [40,41], whereas others promote the Relationship Coffee Model (RCM), where coffee quality is at the core of the relationship between growers and global buyers [42].…”

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Grinding Uncertainty: Business Model Innovation as a Strategy for Coffee Sector SMEs

Zimmermann

2023

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“…This shift is a large‐scale systemic task that requires innovation activities on the macro, meso, and micro levels (Kirchherr et al, 2017; Korhonen et al, 2018,b; Kuzma et al, 2022; Prieto‐Sandoval et al, 2018). These levels encompass whole socioeconomic systems (e.g., Ghisellini et al, 2016), value chains (e.g., Bressanelli et al, 2019), business models (e.g., de Sousa Jabbour et al, 2019; Jabbour et al, 2019; Julkovski et al, 2022; Linder & Williander, 2017; Pies & Schultz, 2023), and products/services (e.g., Aguiar et al, 2022). The multi‐tiered structure of transitioning to a CE emphasizes the notion that a CE can be seen as a systemic concept that necessitates paradigmatic shifts from pure competition to co‐opetition (e.g., Kirchherr et al, 2018).…”

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“…In a similar vein, Pinheiro et al(2018) explore product innovation in a CE context and empirically identify legislation and regulation as main drivers of the CE. However, the authors bypass the analysis of the full potential of governance 3 Please, see for a detailed discussion regarding the distinction between optimization and governance the studies by, for example,Pies et al (2021);Pies and Schultz (2023); Schultz (2022).4 There also exist further categorizations depending on the literature foci. For instance,Hansen et al (2002) introduced three networks of a firm applying a firm-level perspective, namely, "business", "regulatory", and "knowledge" that communicate information in different ways and from different perspectives from/to the firm.…”

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Stakeholder governance to facilitate collaboration for a systemic circular economy transition: A qualitative study in the European chemicals and plastics industry

Schultz,

Valentinov,

Kirchherr

et al. 2023

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Implementing the circular economy (CE) requires novel forms of stakeholder collaboration. While the contemporary literature on stakeholder theory is commonly characterized as “pro‐business‐oriented,” it remains ambiguous on how precisely stakeholder collaborations may pave the way for a systemic CE transition. By applying a qualitative‐empirical research approach utilizing semi‐structured interviews, this paper identifies three types of stakeholder governance for CE collaborations—(i) company‐centric governance, (ii) industry‐oriented governance, and (iii) cross‐industry‐oriented governance. Our contribution to stakeholder theory lies in examining how a systemic CE transition may bridge “the stakeholder‐system divide.” We emphasize the unique role of innovative governance in ensuring the success of stakeholder relationships while highlighting how systemic changes of the business environment may give an impetus to stakeholder collaborations. We contribute to the CE literature by gaining the following insights into stakeholder collaborations in the European chemicals and plastics industry: (a) successful collaborations typically feature a variety of different stakeholders maintaining close mutual interactions; (b) a systemic CE transition calls for managerial strategies that are collectively governance‐oriented rather than company‐centric. This article thus sheds light on the criticality of stakeholder collaborations and collective‐oriented governance strategies in fostering CE practices within the European chemicals and plastics industry highlighting that stakeholder collaborations for a CE need to be extended beyond immediate industrial and sectoral boundaries.

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The governance of sustainable business model innovation—An Ordonomic Approach

Cited by 15 publications

References 47 publications

The circular economy growth machine: A critical perspective on “post‐growth” and “pro‐growth” circularity approaches

The circular economy growth machine: A critical perspective on “post‐growth” and “pro‐growth” circularity approaches

Grinding Uncertainty: Business Model Innovation as a Strategy for Coffee Sector SMEs

Stakeholder governance to facilitate collaboration for a systemic circular economy transition: A qualitative study in the European chemicals and plastics industry

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