| Title |
Sustainability-oriented business model development: principles, criteria and tools |
| ID_Doc |
34151 |
| Authors |
Breuer, H; Fichter, K; Lüdeke-Freund, F; Tiemann, I |
| Title |
Sustainability-oriented business model development: principles, criteria and tools |
| Year |
2018 |
| Published |
International Journal Of Entrepreneurial Venturing, 10, 2 |
| DOI |
10.1504/IJEV.2018.092715 |
| Abstract |
A shared understanding of the basic requirements for modelling sustainability-oriented business is currently missing. This is hindering collaboration, exchange and learning about sustainability-oriented business models as well as the development of suitable and widely-accepted modelling tools. We contribute toward such a shared understanding based on a theoretical discussion of boundary-spanning and interactive business model development for sustainable value creation. The theoretical discussion feeds into a comparative analysis of the six currently available practitioner tools supporting the exploration and elaboration of sustainability-oriented business models. By synthesising findings from theory and available tools, we define four guiding principles (sustainability-orientation, extended value creation, systemic thinking and stakeholder integration) and four process-related criteria (reframing business model components, context-sensitive modelling, collaborative modelling, managing impacts and outcomes) for the development of sustainability-oriented business models. |
| Author Keywords |
corporate sustainability; business model; business model development; business model tool; value creation; innovation; innovation management; sustainable entrepreneurship; activity system; interaction economics; stakeholder; stakeholder integration; start-up; corporate venturing; impact management |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000438956800006 |
| WoS Category |
Management |
| Research Area |
Business & Economics |
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