Business Models for Sustainability: Choices and Consequences

IF 4.2 4区 管理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Organization & Environment Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.1177/1086026619854217
S. Schneider, T. Clauss
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Business models for sustainability (BMFS) explicitly consider, jointly, economic with social and/or ecological value contributions. Thus, managing BMFS requires that one should combine multiple institutional logics, consider different stakeholders, and integrate distinct value dimensions. While research into BMFS has proposed frameworks and tools to capture this complexity, the mechanisms that underlie the interaction of the economic with social and/or ecological value creation cycles in BMFS remain unknown. We use a longitudinal, multiple-case study approach to identify a framework of fundamental choices and consequences that lead to economic and social/ecological value creation. Our findings highlight the interdependence of a set of three fundamental choices (an ambition to cater for multiple purposes, behavioral consistency, and collaboration) that lead to a virtuous circle of reinforcing consequences and cascaded value creation. Furthermore, we show how acceptance of limitations and restrictions functions as a powerful coping mechanism to deal with paradox tensions.
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可持续发展的商业模式:选择和后果
可持续性商业模式明确考虑经济、社会和/或生态价值的共同贡献。因此,管理BMFS需要结合多种制度逻辑,考虑不同的利益相关者,并整合不同的价值维度。虽然对BMFS的研究提出了捕捉这种复杂性的框架和工具,但BMFS中经济与社会和/或生态价值创造周期相互作用的机制仍然未知。我们采用纵向、多案例研究的方法来确定导致经济和社会/生态价值创造的基本选择和后果的框架。我们的研究结果强调了一组三个基本选择的相互依存性(满足多种目的的雄心、行为一致性和协作),这三个选择导致了强化后果和级联价值创造的良性循环。此外,我们还展示了接受限制和限制是如何作为一种强大的应对机制来应对矛盾紧张局势的。
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期刊介绍: Organization & Environment encourages informed discussion about the social roots and consequences of environmental problems and stimulates deeper reflection on the meaning and significance of the natural world. By critically examining the impact of human production and consumption systems on the natural environment, Organization & Environment develops new perspectives on organizations that encourage environmentally sensitive reflection, inquiry, and practice.
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