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Business Models for Sustainable Innovation: State-of-the-Art and Steps Towards a Research Agenda

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In this article, the authors review the current literature on business models in the contexts of technological, organizational and social innovation and propose examples of normative requirements that business models should meet in order to support sustainable innovations.
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This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2013-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1395 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainable business & Business model.

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A literature and practice review to develop sustainable business model archetypes

TL;DR: In this article, sustainable business models (SBM) incorporate a triple bottom line approach and consider a wide range of stakeholder interests, including environment and society, to drive and implement corporate innovation for sustainability, can help embed sustainability into business purpose and processes, and serve as a key driver of competitive advantage.
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Designing the Business Models for Circular Economy—Towards the Conceptual Framework

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a literature review to identify and classify the circular economy characteristics according to a business model structure, and defined the components of the business model canvas in the context of circular economy.
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Sustainability-Oriented Innovation of SMEs: A Systematic Review

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the heterogeneous picture research has drawn within the past 20 years with a focus on the innovation practices including different types of SOIs and strategic sustainability behaviors of SMEs through an interdisciplinary, systematic review in a time frame between 1987 and 2010.
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Sustainable innovation, business models and economic performance: an overview

TL;DR: The 2010 edition of the ERSCP-EMSU 2010 Conference as mentioned in this paper was the first edition of a special issue dedicated to the business model concept for sustainable innovation in the context of sustainable development.
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Sustainability‐oriented Innovation: A Systematic Review

TL;DR: In this article, a review of 100 scholarly articles and 27 grey sources drawn from the period of the three Earth Summits (1992, 2002 and 2012), the authors address four specific deficiencies that have given rise to these limitations: the meaning of SOI, how it has been conceptualized, its treatment as a dichotomous phenomenon and a general failure to reflect more contemporary practices.
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Eco-Innovation: When Sustainability and Competitiveness Shake Hands

TL;DR: In this article, the authors classify the barriers to (and drivers of) eco-innovation and propose a policy approach to promote ecoinnovation, and discuss the main elements of such an approach.
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Business Model Analysis Applied To Mobile Business

TL;DR: It is argued that successful business models are likely to be the ones that best address the economic peculiarities underlying this industry, like mobility, network effects and natural monopolies.
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Technology innovation‐induced business model change: a contingency approach

TL;DR: In this article, a methodology that generates contingencies for the evolution of a company or an industry's reference business model (BM) under the impact of a technology innovation is presented.
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Business Models for Technology in the Developing World: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations

TL;DR: The difficulties in designing and introducing new products and technologies are generally attributed to the lack of understanding of the local environment in these countries as mentioned in this paper, however, accessing the potential market in the developing world also requires an appropriate business model.
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A new business model for sustainable development: an exploratory study using the theory of constraints in Nordic organizations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an exploratory study undertaken to identify a new business model for sustainable development in Nordic countries, using the cloverleaf account of sustainable development to structure and analyse sustainable development information.