TY - CHAP

T1 - The role of business models for sustainable consumption

T2 - A pattern approach

AU - Lüdeke-Freund, Florian

AU - Froese, Tobias

AU - Schaltegger, Stefan

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Oksana Mont 2019. All rights reserved.

PY - 2019/10/1

Y1 - 2019/10/1

N2 - Chapter 6, ‘The role of business models for sustainable consumption: A pattern approach’ by Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Tobias Froese and Stefan Schaltegger explores the role of business models in shifting towards more sustainable consumption patterns and levels. The main ideas discussed in this chapter relate to the role of business models in supporting strong sustainable consumption (SSC), different sustainability strategies and how sustainable business model patterns can become a means to design better production-consumption systems. These ideas can serve as a starting point for more comprehensive and balanced debates about how companies, that is, the major designers of modern production-consumption systems, can contribute to strong sustainable consumption. The authors ask readers to go beyond the often heard calls for efficiency and sufficiency business models, which too often ignore that neither sustainability strategies nor business models unfold in a vacuum. Hence, it is important to consider multiple sustainability strategies and multiple business model design options simultaneously. The authors, therefore, call for approaches that consider both multiple sustainability strategies and multiple business model patterns in order to create better production-consumption systems that could help humanity to navigate through the increasingly narrowing ‘strong sustainable consumption corridor’.

AB - Chapter 6, ‘The role of business models for sustainable consumption: A pattern approach’ by Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Tobias Froese and Stefan Schaltegger explores the role of business models in shifting towards more sustainable consumption patterns and levels. The main ideas discussed in this chapter relate to the role of business models in supporting strong sustainable consumption (SSC), different sustainability strategies and how sustainable business model patterns can become a means to design better production-consumption systems. These ideas can serve as a starting point for more comprehensive and balanced debates about how companies, that is, the major designers of modern production-consumption systems, can contribute to strong sustainable consumption. The authors ask readers to go beyond the often heard calls for efficiency and sufficiency business models, which too often ignore that neither sustainability strategies nor business models unfold in a vacuum. Hence, it is important to consider multiple sustainability strategies and multiple business model design options simultaneously. The authors, therefore, call for approaches that consider both multiple sustainability strategies and multiple business model patterns in order to create better production-consumption systems that could help humanity to navigate through the increasingly narrowing ‘strong sustainable consumption corridor’.

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - business models for sustainable consumption

KW - strong sustainable consumption

KW - a pattern approach

KW - multiple sustainability strategies

KW - production-consumption systems

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098848126&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/87c01a74-8eac-32fd-85d7-ece8d30cca0c/

U2 - 10.4337/9781788117814.00015

DO - 10.4337/9781788117814.00015

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85098848126

SN - 978-1-78811-780-7

T3 - Elgar research agendas

SP - 86

EP - 104

BT - A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance

A2 - Mont, Oksana

PB - Edward Elgar Publishing

CY - Cheltenham

ER -