Toward Accelerating Sustainability Transitions through Collaborative Sustainable Business Modeling: A Conceptual Approach

Sustainability transitions are purposeful and require deliberate collective action from multiple organizations, leading to the necessity to adopt new business models and redesign value networks. In both business model and sustainability transition research, the explicit activities needed to re-shape value creation and capture systems of...

Scaling inclusive business impacts at the Base of the Pyramid: A framework inspired by business model ecosystems research

Scaling the social impact of inclusive business models that provide solutions to basic needs of Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) communities through firm-centric approaches has proven challenging. Researchers have proposed that scaling strategies at the BoP should go beyond firm-centric approaches by inclusive businesses and involve coordinated...

Fairness and value appropriation in logistics alliances: A case-study approach

Firms are not equally capable of capturing value from an alliance. The present research examines how fairness concerns may help appropriation of value jointly created in an alliance. Using case-study methodology, we investigate how justice theory influences partners’ collaborative business models and outcomes of logistics alliances