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Sustainable Business Models Beyond the Carbon Footprint – A Review of Perceived Sustainability Dimensions in Practical BMI Based on Case Studies

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Sustainability has become an important goal of business model innovation for managers and researchers alike. Nonetheless, we do recognize a strong focus on the carbon footprint. Since sustainability consists at least of the three dimensions economy, ecology and social, we provide a structured literature review on the dimension researchers and managers do work with. In a first step we develop a framework of sustainability dimensions researchers have provided the literature with. In the second step we search the literature for cases of sustainable business model innovation and analyze the results with the framework of sustainability dimensions. A main finding is, that companies from our sample of cases generally long for more than one SDG. This article provides a collection of very recent case studies of SBMI.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    A detailed list of the goals, targets, indicators, and actions is presented in UN’s official website. https://sdgs.un.org/goals.

  2. 2.

    For more details read F. Lüdeke-Freund, H. Breuer, and L. Massa, Sustainable business model design: 45 patterns, Berlin, 2022.

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    For further information see PRISMA’s official website in www.prisma-statement.org/.

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    Research Strings used in the analysis

    TS = (“business model*” AND sustainab* AND innovat* AND (case OR “case stud*”)) (728 results on web of science) & TS = (“business model*” AND sustainab* AND innovat* AND (case OR “case stud*”)) (805 results on scopus).

  5. 5.

    For example [46, 49, 66].

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Gebauer, M., Ademi, B., Braun, J. (2023). Sustainable Business Models Beyond the Carbon Footprint – A Review of Perceived Sustainability Dimensions in Practical BMI Based on Case Studies. In: Jallouli, R., Bach Tobji, M.A., Belkhir, M., Soares, A.M., Casais, B. (eds) Digital Economy. Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation. ICDEc 2023. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 485. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42788-6_4

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