Business Models for Sustainable Innovation: State-of-the-Art and Steps Towards a Research Agenda
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in: Journal of Cleaner Production, Jahrgang 45, 04.2013, S. 9-19.
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T1 - Business Models for Sustainable Innovation
T2 - State-of-the-Art and Steps Towards a Research Agenda
AU - Boons, Frank A. A.
AU - Lüdeke-Freund, Florian
N1 - Artikel ist erschienen im Special Issue "Sustainable Innovation and Business Models"
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - The aim of this paper is to advance research on sustainable innovation by adopting a business model perspective. Through a confrontation of the literature on both topics we find that research on sustainable innovation has tended to neglect the way in which firms need to combine a value proposition, the organization of the upstream and downstream value chain and a financial model in order to bring sustainable innovations to the market. Therefore, we review the current literature on business models in the contexts of technological, organizational and social innovation. As the current literature does not offer a general conceptual definition of sustainable business models, we propose examples of normative requirements that business models should meet in order to support sustainable innovations. Finally, we sketch the outline of a research agenda by formulating a number of guiding questions.
AB - The aim of this paper is to advance research on sustainable innovation by adopting a business model perspective. Through a confrontation of the literature on both topics we find that research on sustainable innovation has tended to neglect the way in which firms need to combine a value proposition, the organization of the upstream and downstream value chain and a financial model in order to bring sustainable innovations to the market. Therefore, we review the current literature on business models in the contexts of technological, organizational and social innovation. As the current literature does not offer a general conceptual definition of sustainable business models, we propose examples of normative requirements that business models should meet in order to support sustainable innovations. Finally, we sketch the outline of a research agenda by formulating a number of guiding questions.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - business model
KW - business model innovation
KW - innovation
KW - sustainable innovation
KW - conceptual
KW - overview
KW - Literature review
KW - Business model for sustainability
KW - Literature review
KW - Research agenda
KW - Sustainable business model
KW - Sustainable innovation
KW - Entrepreneurship
KW - Sustainable entrepreneurship
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/d87cb32d-95ef-30fe-9549-1b735e2b0a2a/
U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.07.007
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.07.007
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 45
SP - 9
EP - 19
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
SN - 0959-6526
ER -