Organization & Environment has extended the submission deadline for contributions to the planned special issue on “Business Models for Sustainability”! The new deadline is 31st March 2014. Important resources: CfP published by Organization & Environment Original post on the BCfS special issue Organization & Environment journal website Further O&E calls for papers
With regard to publications on sustainable business models, 2014 has just begun. One journal article (by our blog team member Nancy Bocken) and two reports published in early 2014 were added to our open reference list.* These are the first publications added in 2014. Interestingly, they all provide broader overviews of sustainable business model and innovation approaches: […]
Originally posted on Designing better business:
In the quest to reduce the environmental burden of our industrial production and mass consumption society, we begin to focus our attention on current business models. For the past 20 years, researchers have been pointing to systems’ innovation. Bringing both ideas together in business model innovation is thought to…
Leuphana University of Lüneburg offers two research assistant positions for the applied R&D project „Sustainability-Oriented Business Model Assessment (SUST-BMA)“. Application deadline is 19 February 2014. The official job postings can be found here – in German only. Please note that the project will be conducted in Germany, i.e. some knowledge of the German language is required. […]
[An English posting will follow.] [Die offiziellen Ausschreibungen finden Sie hier.] Die Leuphana Universität Lüneburg sucht für das anwendungsorientierte Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekt „Sustainability-Oriented Business Model Assessment (SUST-BMA)“ zwei wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter. Die Bewerbungsfrist endet am 19.02.2014. Die Stellenbesetzung wird vorbehaltlich der Zuweisung externer Mittel und Bewilligung des Projektantrages umgesetzt. Die/Der wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/in arbeitet im Rahmen des Forschungs- und […]
César Levy França, PhD researcher at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden, recently published his Licentiate Thesis “Business Model Design for Strategic Sustainable Development”. César is working at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development which is lead by Prof. Dr. Göran Bromann. Prof. Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt, who founded The Natural Step back in 1989, is also working at this department. […]
O Canada! Our team of authors is further growing and is getting more international. After having Australia (Susan) and Europe (e.g. Nancy and Peter) in our team, North America, i.e. Canada, did also join – welcome Antony Upward! I am happy to tell that the person who coined the term “Strongly Sustainable Business Model” is […]
What might sustainable business models look like? The ‘sufficiency-based business model’ is about solutions that actively seek to reduce consumption and production: what if we bought less, bought stuff that lasts long, and looked after our stuff? What if businesses made it possible for its customers to do this? The proverb ‘I am not rich enough to […]
Strongly Sustainable Business Models: A Personal Perspective on a New Field of Practice and Research
Welcome This is [a repost of] my first post in the blog for the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG), an applied research group within OCAD U’s Strategic Innovation Lab in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [ The original post (made July 26, 2012) can be seen here and subsequent posts here]. The SSBMG group’s convener, Dr. Nabil Harfoush, has asked me, as a cofounder […]
On Friday, 13th December, SBM blogger Florian Lüdeke-Freund defended his cumulative PhD thesis “Business Models for Sustainability Innovation – Conceptual Foundations and the Case of Solar Energy”. Below you find a brief summary, an overview of the articles included in the thesis, and the defence presentation. The PhD thesis can be downloaded here: http://opus.uni-lueneburg.de/opus/volltexte/2014/14286/ Summary […]
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