Original title: Sustainable business model innovation: A review
A business modelA description of how an organisation creates and delivers value. describes how an organisation creates and delivers value. Changing that model can help an organisation improve its sustainability performance, but many such changes fail. The researchers systematically searched existing studies and followed references to find more. They compared key concepts, clarified some definitions, and identified gaps that suggest questions for future research.
Imagine changing how your family shops for food to waste less. The new routine might sound sensible, but it can fail, and it is hard to know why if nobody compares what happened across many households. In this paper, the food-shopping changes stand for new business models, and reviewing many reports helps reveal what researchers know and what they still need to find out.
Organisations trying to improve their sustainability performance may rely on new business models, but those changes can fail. This review maps existing research and identifies questions that future studies could investigate about why.
The abstract describes a review, not evidence from tests of why particular business model innovations fail. It identifies a research gap and proposes questions, but does not say whether those questions have been answered or whether the proposed definitions have been tested.
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Sustainable business model innovation: A review — Martin Geissdoerfer, Doroteya Vladimirova, Steve Evans — Journal of Cleaner Production — doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.06.240
Abstract licence: CC BY
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