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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
SustainableBusinessModel.org has new active member: Dr. Susan C. Lambert, Associate Professor at the University of South Australia, joined the team of active writers for this blog. Welcome! Susan is truly dedicated to advancing business model theory. Her PhD thesis (2010) was entitled “Progressing Business Model Research Towards Mid-Range Theory Building”. Her interest in business model research dates […]
The Journal of Cleaner Production, a renown interdisciplinary journal in the field of environmental and sustainability sciences, published a special issue on “Sustainable Innovation and Business Models” in April 2013 (Vol. 45, 116 pages total). This issue is partly based on contributions to the 2010 ERSCP-EMSU Conference in Delft, The Netherlands. References to some of the […]
Literature reviews show that increasing numbers of scientific research and publications are using, or are even completely inspired by, Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas (BMC, Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010). There is no doubt that the BMC is one of the management tools of our time. However, when writing a scientific article, e.g. a conceptual piece about […]
This is how SustainableBusinessModel.org shall become a lively, topically focused and up-to-date community platform: First phase (2013): 1st semester 2013: collection of references to relevant scientific publications and identification of SBM scholars who will be invited to join 2nd semester 2013: installation of more convenient publication and scholar database, including interactive updates and improved search […]
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