Category SBM Blog
SBM Blogging – 2014 in review
Dear SBM Community, dear Readers, 2014 was the second year for our platform, and it was a very good year: 13 active bloggers, 130 entries in our open publication list, a total of 49 posts since the blog’s start in February 2013 and our new “Papers in Brief” series have attracted 7,900 page views in […]
Welcome Kerli, Idil, and Minttu!
We are happy to announce that three more SBM researchers joined our platform (see About Us): Kerli Kant Hvass Kerli Kant Hvass is an industrial PhD fellow at the Center for Corporate Social Responsibility at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Her research interest includes business model innovation and cross-sectoral partnerships for sustainability and various aspects related […]
Designing Business Models for Flourishing Enterprises – Colloquium and Workshop (Dec 5, 2014, Hamburg)
[ PDF version ] On December 5th, 2014, the University of Hamburg and its Faculty of Business, Economics & Social Sciences* host a colloquium and workshop on “Designing Business Models for Flourishing Enterprises” facilitated by Antony Upward, Co-founder of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG), OCAD University, and Principal of Edward James Consulting Ltd., […]
Special issue “Industrial Ecology as a Source of Competitive Advantage”
How could the biggest sugar refiner in the UK become the biggest tomato grower as well? Over the past three decades, British Sugar has systematically identified ways to turn waste streams and emissions from their sugar production processes into useful and positive inputs to new product lines. Their main business is still sugar, but the business model has […]
Towards Business Design Principles for Strongly Sustainable Organizations
By Antony Upward Welcome This is [a report of[ my third post to the blog of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG), an applied research group within OCAD U’s Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [The original post (made March 6, 2013) is available here]. [At the time of writing I was […]
Towards a Definition of Organizational Strong Sustainability – A Review of the Literature
By Antony Upward Welcome This is [a repost of] my second post to the blog of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG), an applied research group within OCAD U’s Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [The original post (made November 12, 2012) is available here]. [At the time of writing I was] […]
MOOC on Social Entrepreneurship Starting on 3rd September (incl. Business Modelling and Business Planning)
Prof. Kai Hockerts from Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark, offers a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Social Entrepreneurship on Coursera. The course starts on 3rd September 2014 and takes 12 weeks (4-6 hours of work per week). Learn more about the Social Entrepreneurship MOOC. Short description (from Coursera): “In this course you will […]
Welcome Sebastian!
SustainableBusinessModel.org (aka blog.SSBMG.com) is growing: Sebastian Knab joined our blogger team. Welcome! Here is a short introduction to Sebastian: Sebastian is a PhD researcher at Universität Hamburg, Department of Socioeconomics, Chair of Business Ethics and Management. His research focuses on business model innovation in the context of the sustainability transition in the electric power industry. In […]
Working Definitions of “Sustainable Business Model” & “Business Model for Sustainability”
by Florian Lüdeke-Freund Research on “sustainable business models” (SBM) and “business models for sustainability” (BMfS) is gaining momentum and shows first traits of a field in its own right (Lüdeke-Freund & Dembek, 2017). An important questions in this area is: How to define a “sustainable business model” or “business model for sustainability”?* Such a definition […]
The ISPIM 2014 Sustainable Business Model “Package”
The XXV ISPIM Conference (Dublin, Ireland, 8-11 June 2014) focuses on “Innovation for Sustainable Economy & Society”. ISPIM is The International Society for Professional Innovation Management which, of course, pays a lot of attention to business model-related topics in research and practice. Screening the currently available ISPIM 2014 conference program shows that sustainable business models […]
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