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Journeying Toward Business Models for Sustainability: A Conceptual Model Found Inside the Black Box of Organisational Transformation
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Scholars increasingly recognise that business contributions to sustainable development are founded in new business models. However, most research in this field remains conceptual and offers a rather static view of a complex and dynamic reality. This article contributes to understanding how new business models for sustainability are fashioned through the interactions between individuals and groups inside and outside companies. Based on two case studies, our findings show that three elements contributed to the path of transformation toward business models for sustainability: building networks and collaborative practices for learning and action around a new vision, the deployment of new concepts drawn from outside the company, and elaborating an implementation structure within a reconfigured network. Our findings reveal the complexity of the process, which went through four subprocesses: identifying, translating, embedding, and sharing. Our results also highlight the importance of considering value destruction as well as new ways to create and capture value.
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- Authors
- Roome, N., & Louche, C.
- Venue
- Organization & Environment
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-07-27
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 11-35
- ISSN
- 1086-0266 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7417
- OpenAlex
- W1754651964
- Cited by
- 318
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 55.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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