Exploring the sectoral and organizational levels
Topics in this theme are, for example, tools and frameworks for business modeling and experimentation for sustainability; SDGs as framework for business activities; new business models in times of crisis; cooperative business models; new business models and corporate strategic management; new business models and governance.
Track 2.1 – Corporate Strategic Management and Sustainable and New Business Models
Track chairs: Romana Rauter, Yuliya Snihur
The building of sustainable and scalable business models rests upon strategic management decision-making within the firm, as does the subsequent management of the business model portfolio. In this context, this track focusses on exploring the linkages between a corporate’s strategic management and sustainable and new business models. We welcome conceptual and empirical papers delivering novel insights on this topic.
Track 2.2 – Design Thinking, Actor Engagement, and Legitimation in the Context of Circular Business Model Innovation
Track chairs: Francesca Ostuzzi, Katrien Verleye, Fatima Khitous
This track aims to explore how the concepts of design thinking, actor engagement, and legitimation advance business model innovation in the context of a circular economy. This track welcomes scholars from different disciplines, and it is open to conceptual and empirical papers that relate different topics like co-creation, design practices, legitimation mechanisms, engagement strategies, systems thinking, cybernetics, trust, collaboration, and self-sustainability to the circular business model innovation.
Track 2.3 – Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Business Models
Track chair: Jonas Gabrielsson
This track seeks to advance research on sustainable business model by exploring its connection to the scholarly field of entrepreneurship. The track addresses this connection by linking the concept of sustainable business models to issues such as entrepreneurial cognition, opportunity creation/discovery/development, and new venture outcomes such as survival and growth.
Track 2.4 – New Business Models in Times of Crisis
Track chairs: Jaione Ganzarain Epelde, Urtzi Uribetxebarria Andres, Ion Iriarte Azpiazu
Crises are source of profound human loss, tragedy and agony and as such they give rise to events that pose threats to organizations. In this context, resilient structures (sectoral, organizational, group) based on new frameworks fostering multi-stakeholder cooperation and innovative capacity, might become a sustainable competitive advantage. Thus, this track welcomes studies on new business models or sustainable business practices in time of crisis which reveal different practices to ensure resilience on multiple levels (e.g. individual level employee well-being, team level innovation absorption capacity, organizational level social responsibility, firm level financial performance).
Track 2.5 – Data-driven Business Models for Sustainability in Emerging Fields
Track chairs: Magnus Holmén, Lauri Paavola, Maya Hoveskog
This track aims to explore how data-driven business models shape the overall ecosystem value propositions for sustainability. For mature industries and technologies this is often problematic as they are characterized by lock-in to existing business models and industrial structures. This can be addressed by new data-driven services and business models. One practical illustration is the presumed emergence of autonomous, connected, electric shared vehicles (ACES). This track intends to empirically analyze and conceptualize the emergence and structure of such areas. The track is focusing on, but not limited to, the interplay between products and service vs. business models and ecosystem; data acquisition strategy and new business models; the role of digital platforms for sustainable business model innovation; methods for developing sustainable, data-driven business models and ecosystems.
Track 2.6 – Business Model Experimentation for Sustainability
Track chairs: Nancy Bocken, Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen, Sveinung Jørgensen, Jan Konietzko, Marc Dijk, Ilka Weissbrod, Maria Antikainen
The track explores the topic of “Business model experimentation for sustainability”. The aim of experimentation is to put forward and accelerate novel and impactful solutions. Track sub-themes relate to the following aspects of business model experimentation: the process, impacts, and ethics and biases in experimentation.
Track 2.7: New Business Models in an International Context
Track chairs: Svante Andersson, Petri Ahokangas
Most business model literature does not deal in which countries business models’ value creating, delivering and capturing activities are localized. Especially for new international firms, localization decisions are important as these firms must deal with liabilities if newness, smallness, foreignness. Thus, this track aims at attracting scholars to discuss their current research on sustainable business models in an international context.