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Business transition management: exploring a new role for business in sustainability transitions
Derk Loorbach,Katinka Wijsman +1 more
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In this paper, a transition management framework for business transition to sustainable systems is proposed, in which societal sustainability challenges are translated into new socio-economic business models implying fundamental transitions within businesses.Abstract:
In our paper we seek to conceptually interpret business strategies related to sustainability from a transition perspective. We argue that there is an emergent trend of businesses and industries that move beyond optimizing the organization's individual performance, by mitigating negative environmental and social impacts, to fundamentally restructuring and rethinking existing businesses in light of broader societal changes. By means of the transition framework, we conceptualize the development of new sustainable business models as a new phase in corporate responsibility, in which societal sustainability challenges are translated into new socio-economic business models implying fundamental transitions within businesses. We then outline the basic contours of an approach that seeks to make business transitions to sustainable systems manageable in terms of influencing speed and direction of business transitions by adapting the transition management framework. We describe the framework of business transition management in a number of interlinked activities based on an experimental participatory case study of the transition in the Dutch roof sector.read more
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The Proactive Incumbent: Holy grail or hidden gem? : Investigating whether the Dutch electricity sector can overcome the incumbent’s curse and lead the sustainability transition
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a framework to differentiate between four types of incumbent strategies and demonstrates how the proactiveness of the mindset of the incumbent's leadership is crucial to understand the differences between them.
Dissertation
Comment l’innovation peut contribuer à une dynamique de transition écologique ? : Le cas de l’industrie du recyclage
TL;DR: In this paper, Geels et al. propose a transition perspective articule trois niveaux : le paysage, le regime sociotechnique, and the niche socio-technologie.
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Small Holds Sway: How Small Businesses Mobilize Knowledge to Support Action in Learning Processes for Sustainability Transformations
TL;DR: This article examined industry transformations in the brewing sector in Canada and Germany and showed how metanarratives shape these processes by making tacitly held understandings explicit in language, externalizing alternative organizing principles around "the art of making" and "cooperation as a means to prosper".
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Stakeholder power and organizational learning in corporate environmental management
Nigel Roome,Frank Wijen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how and why stakeholder power and organizational learning interact, drawing on comparative case studies of the environmental management practices found in two major companies, and find that there is a complex relationship between the ambition of company goals, the structure of learning, and the influence of stakeholders on the process and outcomes of learning.
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An investigation of entrepreneurial driving forces and motivators
TL;DR: The NATURE AND SCOPE OF the STUDY as discussed by the authors is a collection of short stories about nature and scope of the study of biology, biology, and astronomy, with a focus on astronomy.
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Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business
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