Business Models for Sustainability Transitions How Organisations Contribute to Societal Transformation

Can innovations in business change society? Can innovations in society change business? These two questions have become critically urgent in recent years, but are rarely considered together. ‘Business Models for Sustainability Transitions’ therefore asks, can contemplating both concepts together result in a flourishing, sustainable future? Technology alone cannot save us. We cannot consciously consume our way out of trouble. This book represents a start at bridging the dynamic world of business model innovation with the constant and unprecedented transitions underway in the world around us. For researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, the coupling of the two questions has the potential to unlock answers to our grand global challenges with responses that are at the same time rapid and enduring. This work offers unique and considered glimpses into what it may take to harness wide-ranging innovations for the collective good.

CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Business Models for Sustainability Transitions.- CHAPTER 2 Transformative business and sustainability transitions: A framework and an empirical study.- CHAPTER 3 Bridging the gaps between business models and sustainability transitions.- CHAPTER 4 The business model dilemma: the conflicting institutional logics between regime and niche level.- CHAPTER 5 Reorganizing Systems and Delivering Sustainable Transition: Business Models that Interlink Solutions to Social and Environmental Problems.- CHAPTER 6 The Business Model of Enough –Value Creation for Sufficiency-oriented Businesses.- CHAPTER 7 Business models for energy efficiency services: Four archetypes based on user-centeredness and dynamic capabilities.- CHAPTER 8 Collaborative business models and platforms in shared mobility transitions.- CHAPTER 9 Business models for sustainability servicein buildings.- CHAPTER 10 Smart Products as Enabler for Circular Business Models: the Case of B2B Textile Washing Services.- CHAPTER 11 An approach to integrate business model and system level sustainability.- CHAPTER 12 Circular economy in the waste water sector: Identifying appropriate Business Models for resource-oriented sanitation systems in rural Germany.- CHAPTER 13 Reverse Logistics Process for Business Transition – a case example from the textile industry.

Annabeth Aagaard is an Associate Professor and the founding Director of Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital Business Development at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research is focused on sustainable and digital business development, ecosystems and innovation, from which she has (co)-authored 14 textbooks, including “Sustainable Business Models - Innovation, Implementation and Success”, Palgrave.

Florian Lüdeke-Freund is Professor for Corporate Sustainability at ESCP Business School, Berlin. He serves on the editorial boards of different journals, and has authored or edited four books, including “Sustainable Business Model Design”. He founded www.sustainablebusinessmodel.org.