Approaching Tensions in Business Model Innovation for Sustainability: An Ordonomic Meta-Framework on Tensions

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  • Felix Carl Schultz Department of Economic Ethics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2022.v11n4p47

Keywords:

sustainable business model, sustainable business model innovation, business model innovation for sustainability, tension, governance

Abstract

Business model innovation for sustainability (BMIfS) has recently seen a surge in academia and practice. This article introduces an ordonomic BMIfS meta-framework to further stimulate the growing research interest on how available approaches to tensions in BMIfS can be purposefully reconciled to improve the management of BMIfS. The ordonomic BMIfS meta-framework proposes an opportunity to mediate between the normative desiderata of integrative approaches and ‘practical’ instrumental ones to tensions, which feature prominently in the contemporary literature. Within this meta-framework, both approaches play equally important but categorially different roles. This article contributes by proposing to actively shape the ‘boundary conditions’ in BMIfS processes to prevent tensions manifesting in irreconcilable tradeoffs.

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Published

2022-10-01

How to Cite

Schultz, F. C. . (2022). Approaching Tensions in Business Model Innovation for Sustainability: An Ordonomic Meta-Framework on Tensions. European Journal of Sustainable Development, 11(4), 47. https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2022.v11n4p47

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