Author Archives: Florian Lüdeke-Freund
The “Value Mapping Tool” to Support Sustainable Business Modelling
Nancy Bocken, Lead Researcher at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, and her colleagues Samuel Short, Padmakshi Rana and Steve Evans recently published an article about “A value mapping tool for sustainable business modelling” in Corporate Governance (see SBM Literature). Nancy published a highly interesting introduction to the “Value Mapping Tool” on her own […]
New SBM blogger Peter Wells on his new book “Business Models for Sustainability”
It is a pleasure to announce that Peter Wells, Professor of Business and Sustainability at Cardiff Business School, joined our team of occasional SBM bloggers. Welcome Peter! Read Peter’s first blog post introducing his new book “Business Models for Sustainability“, the first monograph on this topic. “A brief Internet search under the term ‘sustainable business models’ yields […]
New book on “Business Models for Sustainability” by Peter Wells
Peter Wells, Professor of Business and Sustainability at Cardiff Business School, has written the first monograph ever on “Business Models for Sustainability” (192 pages) which will soon be available via Edward Elgar Publishing. See the publisher’s description here. According to this one very big online bookstore, Business Models for Sustainability will be available from 13th October […]
Welcome Liina!
SustainableBusinessModel.org has new active member: Liina Joller, Researcher and PhD Candidate at University of Tartu, Estonia, joined the team of active writers for this blog. Welcome! Read Liina’s introduction to herself: “I am currently in the process of writing my doctoral dissertation on eco-innovation in business models at University of Tartu in Estonia. Though the general principles are universal, […]
Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “Business Models for Sustainability: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Transformation”
Today, Organization & Environment (O&E), a leading international sustainability journal with an emphasis on the connection between the management of organizations and environment, published a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “Business Models for Sustainability: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Transformation”. O&E is published in association with Group of Research on Organizations and Natural Environment (GRONEN). ————————————————————————- Call […]
Business Model Track at the “Sustainable Innovation 2013” Conference, 4-5 November 2013, Surrey, UK
The upcoming “Sustainable Innovation 2013” conference has a special focus on “New Business Models”. The full title and venue are as follows: SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 2013 Collaboration, Co-creation & New Business Models Part of the ‘Towards Sustainable Product Design’ series of conferences 18th International Conference 4th-5th November 2013 University for the Creative Arts Epsom, Surrey, UK 30 papers […]
Business Model Innovation and Sustainability Transitions (Matthew J. Hannon)
A post by Dr. Matthew J. Hannon, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London. Setting the Scene There is a growing consensus that many of the current systems we rely on to satisfy our human needs (e.g. comfort, mobility, nutrition etc.) are fundamentally unsustainable. Consequently, there is a pressing need to both swiftly and radically reconfigure […]
Welcome Matthew!
SustainableBusinessModel.org has new active member: Dr. Matthew J. Hannon, Research Associate at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, joined the team of active writers for this blog. Welcome! Read Matthew’s introduction to himself: “I have over the past few years become increasingly interested in the development and application of novel business models and how these might […]
The relevance of SBM research: Highly commended and top-ranked articles
The SBM community knows well that research on sustainable business models is urgently needed. But how about the broader community of sustainability (and mainstream) scholars? Common forms of acknowledging the quality and relevance of research are public recommendations and rankings. To my knowledge, five articles and one individual research project included in the open reference […]
Developing Theories of Business Models (Susan C. Lambert)
A post by Associate Professor Dr. Susan C. Lambert, University of South Australia, Business School Business model research has emerged from management, entrepreneurship, innovation, information systems and more recently sustainability schools of thought, each discipline bringing with it its own context specific perspective. Although there is some evidence of gravitation towards a consensus as to the […]
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