[Die offizielle Ausschreibung finden Sie hier.] Wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in im anwendungsorientierten Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekt „Nachhaltigkeitsorientierte Geschäftsmodellbewertung – Sustainability-Oriented Business Model Assessment (SUST-BMA)“, EG 13 TV-L (50 %), befristet bis 31.07.2015 – Kennwort: Stelle SUST-BMA-3 Die/Der wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in arbeitet im Rahmen des Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojektes „Sustainability-Oriented Business Model Assessment (SUST-BMA)“ des Innovations-Inkubators am Centre for Sustainability Management […]
[Note: This post is the first in 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 (I) by Erik Hansen Hansen, E.; Große-Dunker, F. & Reichwald, R. (2009): Sustainability Innovation Cube – A […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
SustainableBusinessModel.org (aka blog.SSBMG.com) is growing: Prof. Dr. Erik G. Hansen joined our blogger team. Welcome! Here is a short introduction to Erik: Erik is Visiting Professor of Energy Transition Management at the Innovation Incubator, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany, and is associated to the Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM). His main research fields are sustainability-oriented […]
Dear SBM community, I just wrote a brief piece on my personal blog in preparation for a conference I am attending in June! It is an extension on the previous blog on sufficiency based sustainable business models: Sufficiency based sustainable business models seek to reduce consumption and, as a result, production. The focus is on influencing consumption […]
Dear readers and authors, this a message from our colleague Alejandro concerning the planned “Social Business” special issue on “The Social Business Model”. You can read the original post here. Dear colleagues, This concerns Westburn Publishers’ special issue: UNVEILING THE ECONOMIC RATIONALE BEHIND THE SOCIAL BUSINESS MODEL, that I am guest editing with a group […]
AcademicTransfer recently published a really interesting job posting for a postdoc fellowship (original source: http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/WUR/vacancy/22319/lang/en/): Job description For a project on business models for climate smart innovations in the agricultural sector, funded by KiC-Climate, we are looking for an ambitious post-doctoral fellow interested in the field of sustainable entrepreneurship in general and business models for […]
During my PhD defense one of my supervisors (to whom I am really thankful!) asked this question: Okay, what you are saying is that business models are the ‘flexible thing in the middle,’ and that’s why they are important for the success of sustainability innovations. So, that’s all? Um, yes. Hm. To be honest, I […]
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