Business model innovation for sustainability: towards a unified perspective for creation of sustainable business models
| dc.contributor.author | Evans, S | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vladimirova, D | |
| dc.contributor.author | Holgado, M | |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Fossen, K | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yang, M | |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, E | |
| dc.contributor.author | Barlow, C | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-20T09:58:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-04-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Business model innovation has seen a recent surge in academic research and business practice. Changes to business models are recognised as a fundamental approach to realise innovations for sustainability. However little is known about the successful adoption of sustainable business models (SBMs). The purpose of this paper is to develop a unified theoretical perspective for understanding business model innovations that lead to better organizational economic, environmental and social performance. The paper examines bodies of literature on business model innovation, sustainability innovation, networks theory, stakeholder theory and product-service systems. We develop five propositions that support the creation of SBMs in a unified perspective which lays a foundation to support organizations to investigate and experiment with alternative new business models. This article contributes to the emerging field of SBMs, which embed economic, environmental and social flows of value that are created, delivered and captured in a value network. It highlights gaps for addressing the challenges of business model innovation for sustainability and suggests avenues for future research. | en_GB |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This study was supported by the EPSRC project ‘Business Models for Sustainable Industrial Systems’ (grant n° EP/L019914/1) and the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability (grant n° EP/I033351/1) | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 26 (5), pp. 597–608 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/bse.1939 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/26687 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | Wiley for ERP Environment | en_GB |
| dc.rights | © 2017 The Authors. Business Strategy and the Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
| dc.subject | business models | en_GB |
| dc.subject | business model innovation | en_GB |
| dc.subject | sustainability innovation | en_GB |
| dc.subject | sustainable business models | en_GB |
| dc.subject | sustainable value creation | en_GB |
| dc.subject | business model experimentation | en_GB |
| dc.title | Business model innovation for sustainability: towards a unified perspective for creation of sustainable business models | en_GB |
| dc.type | Article | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1099-0836 | |
| dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this record. | |
| dc.identifier.journal | Business Strategy and the Environment | en_GB |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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