Exploring organizational
impact
Topics in this theme are, for example, sustainable business model patterns; evidence-based business models; strategic impact measurement. The tracks in this theme are linked to a call for papers for a special issue in Journal of Cleaner Production. Further details can be found here.
Track 3.1 – Assessing and Managing the Sustainability Performance of Business Models
Track chairs: Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Romana Rauter
Assessing and managing the sustainability performance of business models requires exploring and integrating various topics and concepts (e.g. business model, systems level approaches) as well as tools and metrics (e.g. from fields such as sustainability reporting and accounting, life cycle assessment). This track is open to conceptual and empirical papers that integrate the notions of business model and sustainability performance in new and convincing ways.
Track 3.2 – Sustainable Business Model Patterns for a Decade of Action
Track chairs: Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Tobias Froese
This track explores the status quo and future avenues for research on business model pattern typologies, taxonomies, and languages. This involves consolidating the available knowledge about business model patterns with the potential to contribute to the UN SDGS in a Decade of Action. We are therefore specifically interested in studies on ‘patterns in action,’ i.e. how and under what conditions business model patterns can serve as practical tools for organisational design. Submissions to this track must have an explicit link to pattern theory.