The 23rd Nordic Academy of Management Conference “Business in Society”, 12-15 August 2015, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, features tracks on Business Models, Corporate Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship. For example: Track 5: Information technology, change and sustainability Track 9: Taking sustainability seriously: rethinking the growth-paradigm in business Track 11: Sustainability and scalability of business models Track […]
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 […]
[Note: This is the third post of our new “Papers in Brief” series. Posts published in this series provide a special service as they explain the core ideas of chosen research papers in a nutshell.] Papers in Brief (III) by Minttu Laukkanen Laukkanen, M. & Patala, S. (2014): Analysing Barriers to Sustainable Business Model Innovations: […]
[Note: This is the second post of our new “Papers in Brief” series. Posts published in this series provide a special service as they explain the core ideas of chosen research papers in a nutshell.] Papers in Brief (II) by A. Idil Gaziulusoy Gaziulusoy, I. & Twomey, P. (2014): Emerging Approaches in Business Model Innovation […]
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 […]
[ 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., […]
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 […]
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 […]
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] […]
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 […]
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