Sustainable business models as boundary-spanning systems of value transfers

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

卷:172

Article

Brehmer, Meike^1,2,3  Podoynitsyna, Ksenia^1,4  Langerak, Fred¹ 

[1] Eindhoven Univ Technol, Dept Ind Engn & Innovat Sci, POB 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands

[2] KTH Royal Inst Technol, Dept Ind Econ & Management, Lindstedtsvagen 30, S-10044 Stockholm, Sweden

[3] KIC InnoEnergy SE, Eindhoven, Netherlands

[4] Jheronimus Acad Data Sci, Sint Janssingel 92, NL-5211 DA Shertogenbosch, Netherlands

关键词: Environmental and social sustainability;    Business model structure;    Business model architecture;    Value creation and capture;    Value network;    Multi-sided platform;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.083

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Sustainable innovation requires collaboration across organizational boundaries, hence in this research, we take a boundary-spanning perspective on the business model. This perspective focuses on how value is created and captured across organizational boundaries, by investigating the value transfers between the focal organization and the external network of business model actors. We analyze the business models of 64 innovative sustainable organizations from The Netherlands in terms of how environmental and social sustainability is manifested in the content, structure, and governance of their business models. We find that environmental sustainability is mainly represented in value creation content, whereas social sustainability is achieved by serving underprivileged user groups and mainly is reflected in value capture content. We observe that social sustainability in both for-profit and non-profit organizations is often achieved by having an imbalance in value exchanges that is compensated elsewhere in the business model. In terms of business model structure we show that sustainable organizations use the same underlying business model structures as can be found in conventional firms. All in all, we demonstrate that 'analyzing the environmental and social sustainability of organizations using the boundary-spanning perspective on business models provides complementary insights to the traditional component-based view of the business model. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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