TY - JOUR

T1 - Linking Sustainable Business Models and Supply Chains – Toward an Integrated Value Creation Framework

AU - Norris, Simon

AU - Hagenbeck, Julia

AU - Schaltegger, Stefan

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors. Business Strategy and The Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

PY - 2021/12/1

Y1 - 2021/12/1

N2 - Extant literature on sustainable business models highlights that value creation stems from resources exchanged in relationships between a focal firm and its stakeholders. In this context, the literature has, so far, focused on direct relationships. However, despite the acknowledged relevance of sustainability issues in supply chains, this relational view of the focal company and its direct stakeholders has not been extended toward value creation for and with indirect stakeholders, such as stakeholders of suppliers. Addressing this gap, this conceptual article integrates a relational view of sustainable supply chain management into the management of sustainable business models. It extends the scope of sustainable business models from relationships between the focal firm and its direct stakeholders to indirect relationships with stakeholders of suppliers. A framework is developed that supports analysis and management of value-creating relationships between the focal firm, suppliers, and stakeholders of suppliers. By extending the conceptualization of sustainable business models to consider relationship chains beyond direct relationships, this article proposes that a focal firm has to actively manage interactions both with suppliers and with suppliers' stakeholders.

AB - Extant literature on sustainable business models highlights that value creation stems from resources exchanged in relationships between a focal firm and its stakeholders. In this context, the literature has, so far, focused on direct relationships. However, despite the acknowledged relevance of sustainability issues in supply chains, this relational view of the focal company and its direct stakeholders has not been extended toward value creation for and with indirect stakeholders, such as stakeholders of suppliers. Addressing this gap, this conceptual article integrates a relational view of sustainable supply chain management into the management of sustainable business models. It extends the scope of sustainable business models from relationships between the focal firm and its direct stakeholders to indirect relationships with stakeholders of suppliers. A framework is developed that supports analysis and management of value-creating relationships between the focal firm, suppliers, and stakeholders of suppliers. By extending the conceptualization of sustainable business models to consider relationship chains beyond direct relationships, this article proposes that a focal firm has to actively manage interactions both with suppliers and with suppliers' stakeholders.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

KW - business model

KW - corporate sustainability

KW - integrated framework

KW - multi-tier supply chain

KW - relational view

KW - takeholders

KW - sustainable supply chain management

KW - value creation

KW - business model

KW - corporate sustainability

KW - integrated framework

KW - multi-tier supply chain

KW - relational view

KW - stakeholders

KW - sustainable supply chain management

KW - value creation

UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bse.2851

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108345627&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/6f7434f4-a3ff-32dd-bb23-7ee76d400013/

U2 - 10.1002/bse.2851

DO - 10.1002/bse.2851

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 30

SP - 3960

EP - 3974

JO - Business Strategy and the Environment

JF - Business Strategy and the Environment

SN - 0964-4733

IS - 8

ER -