Business Model Innovation for Sustainability: Towards a Unified Perspective for Creation of Sustainable Business Models

Business model innovation has seen a recent surge in academic research and business practice. Changes to business models are recognized as a fundamental approach to realize innovations for sustainability. However, little is known about the successful adoption of sustainable business models (SBMs). The purpose of this paper is to develop a unified theoretical perspective for understanding business model innovations that lead to better organizational economic, environmental and social performance. The paper examines bodies of literature on business model innovation, sustainability innovation, networks theory, stakeholder theory and product–service systems. We develop five propositions that support the creation of SBMs in a unified perspective, which lays a foundation to support organizations in investigating and experimenting with alternative new business models. This article contributes to the emerging field of SBMs, which embed economic, environmental and social flows of value that are created, delivered and captured in a value network. It highlights gaps for addressing the challenges of business model innovation for sustainability and suggests avenues for future research. © 2017 The Authors. Business Strategy and the Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd     

Mapping Business Model Research: A Document Bibliometric Analysis

Today, the business model (BM) is one of the most studied concepts within managerial and innovation literature. Although scholars have shown a growing interest in understanding and analysing the BM, a theoretical conceptualization is still lacking. This paper provides a systematic review of the current state of BM research by mapping the research landscape to identify key research publications, journals that had relevance in developing the BM literature, and the main areas of research. Using the ISI Web of Knowledge “core collection”, this study conducts a document bibliometric analysis of 3,604 publications in the fields of management and business that were published between 1985 and 2017. The use of quantitative methods allowed us to overcome the shortcomings of the past subjective literature reviews. We clustered the selected articles on the basis of two distinct perspectives. First, we identified the founders of the discipline, creating a map of co-cited articles (co-citation analysis); this enabled us to identify five major research clusters, formed on the basis of similar co-citations, that characterize the historical evolution of the BM studies. Second, throughout the bibliographic coupling analysis, which aggregates articles sharing a similar bibliography, we captured the main emergent research sub-fields of the most recent BM literature.     

短视频平台型企业商业化转型的商业模式创新——以快手为例

近年来短视频市场规模增速趋缓,短视频平台型企业的战略重点开始从用户增长转为盈利增长。因此,平台企业亟需进行商业模式创新,助力短视频平台企业商业化加速。本文基于价值共创理论,关注用户及合作伙伴的价值创造能力,将商业模式创新链解构为价值主张、价值共创、价值传递、价值获取四大模块,进而分解为9个指标。并以快手为研究案例,通过实证资料编码分析其创新举措。研究揭示了短视频平台型企业商业模式创新的内外驱动因素,绘制出创新路径图,指出要素关系网络和革新方向,为短视频平台型企业的商业化转型提供以下的参考:企业应坚持核心价值主张,构建用户、合作伙伴、企业三者协同的价值共创体系,以加强用户互动和连接为推手,实现多样化的盈利获取。     

服务化商业模式创新架构与要素研究——以利丰为例

商业模式是当今企业核心竞争力形成和发展的关键问题,特别是在产业供应链服务化背景下,如何有效地构造和推动商业模式的创新和可持续是企业供应链管理的核心所在。因此,究竟如何认识服务化商业模式变革的原动力,以及模式建立和演进过程中的组织结构、创新要素和治理方式是一个需要不断深入研究的课题。本文基于国内外有关商业模式相关理论研究,提出了服务化商业模式创新的架构和要素并运用利丰的单案例研究,分析了该理论模式的核心内容和主要路径在实践中的适用性,即服务化商业模式创新的原动力对模式结构选择的影响,以及结构与创新要素和创新治理之间的关系。     

自主经营体商业模式创新案例研究

自互联网诞生以来,关于商业模式的研究在理论界及企业界已成为一个热点及前沿问题,但是目前关于商业模式的研究更多集中于商业模式的定义、要素、分类等理论研究上,从商业模式实践的角度进行系统的案例研究显得相对缺乏。海尔自主经营体商业模式体现了商业模式由理论到实践的转变。首先,本文在回顾商业模式相关文献的基础上,从自主经营体商业机制的构建、设计和组织结构的调整等方面考察了自主经营体商业模式的实践。最后,基于案例分析提炼出自主经营体商业模式的创新之处,力求通过案例研究为我国企业商业模式的创新理论与实践提供有价值的参考。     

商业模式与企业绩效：研究现状与发展

本文通过对现有关于商业模式与企业绩效关系研究的梳理和总结可以看出,商业模式是企业绩效差异的重要因素之一,商业模式创新成功会使企业绩效得到极大的改善和提升。文章总结了商业模型领域的研究现状,并进一步提出了未来研究的方向和方法的改进。     

Organizational transition management of circular business model innovations

Scholars and practitioners across fields increasingly recognize that business models for the circular economy may be an effective lever for solving ecological persistent problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and growing natural resource scarcity. Despite a growing interest in the potential of circular business models, interconnections between the organizational dimensions of firms and their business model innovation processes remain underexplored. Based on problem‐centered expert interviews with business consultants experienced in circular business development, this study creates a conceptual model that offers structured knowledge about why firms steadily reproduce linear BMs and how incumbents manifest themselves as a constant linear‐oriented value creation system. The model also demonstrates organizational conditions and management strategies that frustrate the reproduction of linear BMs and, thus, enable initial moves towards CBM innovation. Building on this, the article provides a set of propositions on how an organizational transition management may be configured and what incumbents require to successfully navigate circular business model innovation. The findings provide a foundation for a contemporary understanding of circular business model transition management, which simultaneously serve as impulses for future research investigations.     

基于B2 M模式的城镇连锁超市商业模式研究

近年来,随着经济的蓬勃发展,在城镇化水平逐渐提高的背景下,开展城镇化连锁超市的商业模式的条件日渐成熟。然而由于城镇化的特殊背景,经济发达地区的连锁超市商业模式无法应用于普通城镇城市发展。因此就这一特殊背景,将现有商业模式与乡镇环境相结合,提出适宜城镇化发展的连锁超市B2 M模式,并就这一模式进行系统性分析研究。     

王村煤矿全员创新实现模式案例研究

近些年来,全员创新成为了企业研究的热点问题,许多企业也将全员创新作为加强自身竞争力的有效途径而推行。然而在实践中真正能够实现全员创新的企业并不多见。本文主要采用文献查阅和实地调研的方式,通过剖析王村煤矿创新历程,分析其全员创新的实现案例,总结全员创新实现模式。王村煤矿立足岗位的创新项目分类,＂个人创意＋组织后援＂的流程...     

A conceptual framework and classification of capability areas for business process maturity

The article elaborates on business process maturity, which indicates how well an organisation can perform based on its business processes, i.e. on its way of working. This topic is of paramount importance for managers who try to excel in today's competitive world. Hence, business process maturity is an emerging research field. However, no consensus exists on the capability areas (or skills) needed to excel. Moreover, their theoretical foundation and synergies with other fields are frequently neglected. To overcome this gap, our study presents a conceptual framework with six main capability areas and 17 sub areas. It draws on theories regarding the traditional business process lifecycle, which are supplemented by recognised organisation management theories. The comprehensiveness of this framework is validated by mapping 69 business process maturity models (BPMMs) to the identified capability areas, based on content analysis. Nonetheless, as a consensus neither exists among the collected BPMMs, a classification of different maturity types is proposed, based on cluster analysis and discriminant analysis. Consequently, the findings contribute to the grounding of business process literature. Possible future avenues are evaluating existing BPMMs, directing new BPMMs or investigating which combinations of capability areas (i.e. maturity types) contribute more to performance than others.     

Dynamic business modeling for sustainability: Exploring a system dynamics perspective to develop sustainable business models

In the last decade, business models for sustainability have gained increasing attraction by corporate sustainability scholars with international conferences and scientific journals encouraging the development of the debate on their design, use and innovation processes. Capitalizing on the basic principles, requirements, and methodological limitations found in the literature on sustainability‐oriented business model design, this paper aims to conceptualize a dynamic business modeling for sustainability approach, which combines an adapted sustainable business model canvas and system dynamics modeling. To this end, the paper also illustrates the key operating principles of the proposed approach through an exemplary application to Patagonia's business model. Findings suggest that dynamic business modeling for sustainability may contribute to sustainable business model research and practice by introducing a systemic design tool, which frames environmental, social, and economic drivers of value generation into a dynamic business model causal feedback structure, thus overcoming methodological gaps of the extant business model design tools.     

破坏性创新商业模式成长中的隔离机制研究

破坏性创新商业模式可以使最先使用者获得竞争优势,但却容易遭受"合法性"尤其是"政治合法性"的打击,形成破坏性创新商业模式的"合法性悖论"。文章具体探讨了(1)自然隔离如何避免破坏性创新商业模式在成长中尤其是成长初期遭受政治合法性的打击;(2)社会隔离如何使破坏性创新商业模式获得不可移植的核心竞争力;(3)心理隔离如何使破坏性创新商业模式获得成长的时间优势。在此基础上,文章为新创业的企业,尤其是采用破坏性创新商业模式的企业提出了相关的建议。     

浅论工商管理人才培养模式的比较分析

传统"三段式"的工商管理人才培养模式,并指出其存在的主要问题。在此基础上,详细比较分析了近年来国内部分高校改革与探索实施的"协同式"、"按系招生,多方向培养"、模块式"和"校企业合作式"四种各具特色的创新工商管理人才培养模式,笔者认为这四种创新工商管理人才培养模式能够在很大程度上弥补传统工商管理人才培养模式的不足,满足经济发展对个性化、多元化、多规格的现代工商管理专业人才的需求。     

制造企业服务化转型的商业模式研究——以空中客车为例

商业模式是当今企业核心竞争力形成和发展的关键问题,特别是在制造企业服务化的趋势背景下,如何通过商业模式的转变实现服务化转型是制造企业关注的重点。本文基于国内外制造企业服务化转型的相关研究,以空中客车公司为例进行案例研究,以时间为主线从多维度对其服务化转型过程进行描述和分析;在此基础上构建出制造企业服务化转型的三阶段演化模型,即从技术管理到服务管理再到协同管理,揭示了服务型制造企业的商业模式;最后得出通过高层管理者支持推动和建立外部关系网络拉动来促进服务化转型的启示。     

基于破坏性创新的企业竞争力提升研究

论文首先对破坏性创新及企业竞争力理论进行分析,提出了破坏性创新的独特价值:一方面为企业提供新的技术发展方向,另一方面为企业核心竞争力的形成与培养提供一种新的机会。最后具体分析了基于破坏性创新的提升企业竞争力的方法,包括破坏性技术创新、破坏性产品创新和商业模式创新等。     

The Effects of Culture and Structure on Strategic Flexibility during Business Model Innovation

This study uses responses from 107 multinational firms to reveal CEO perceptions of the drivers of strategic flexibility during business model innovation. While the positive effect of creative culture is confirmed, partner reliance reduces strategic flexibility during business model innovation. Further, structural change is disaggregated into efforts that either focus managerial attention on core activities or reconfigure existing activities. CEOs perceive that structural flexibility requires structural simplification while retaining control of non‐core functions. We find that the relative magnitude of business model innovation effort moderates the effect of reconfiguration on strategic flexibility. The implications for theories of organizational design and dynamic capabilities are discussed.     

消费升级背景下大数据能力对商业模式创新的影响机理——基于小米和网易严选的案例研究

在消费升级背景下,数据正呈爆炸式增长,给企业带来了机遇与挑战,新的商业模式不断涌现。本文基于动态能力和大数据理论,以小米和网易严选为例,研究了在消费升级背景下大数据能力对商业模式创新的影响机理和路径问题,发现大数据能力通过客户价值、企业资源和能力、盈利模式驱动商业模式创新的三条路径。探讨了资源整合能力、深度分析能力和实时洞察与预测能力三个维度之间的关系,并构建出大数据能力对商业模式创新的影响机理模型,可以拓展大数据能力和现有企业商业模式创新的相关内容。     

Unravelling the design process of business models from linear to circular: An empirical investigation

In the last years, circular economy has represented one of the most-debated topics in management research. Although the understanding of this industrial paradigm has significantly improved over the last decade, a number of important research questions still remain unanswered. Among them, the design process of business model through which established firms evolve from being linear to circular deserves further investigation. Existing research still falls short to investigate how companies design the dimensions of value creation, value transfer, and value capture of their business models to launch circular products into the market. By leveraging a multiple case study analysis of four companies in the paper and beverage industries that have launched six circular products, the paper examines the process that these companies have followed to face the transition toward a circular business model. The paper contributes to the research field in the intersection between new product development and circular business models, by showing that the process toward a circular business model occurs along three major phases, that is, idea generation, product development, and commercialization. In each phase, companies implement peculiar managerial practices for launching circular products into the market, which typically address all the dimensions of the business model and follows a recurrent path over time.     

家族企业女性承继研究综述

随着女性地位的不断提高,性别与继承成为家族企业代际传承领域新的研究方向。以代际传承过程的三个阶段为纵向主线,对女性代际继承问题进行系统归纳与评述。在传承前准备阶段,对女性继承的机会与障碍研究较多,而对继承因素的性别差异性研究不足;传承中过渡阶段,研究主要集中于女性继承人与家族内外利益相关者的关系;而传承后二次创业阶段,研究多关注于角色冲突及女性继承与企业绩效的研究,对于女性继承人小家庭的涉入较少。继承要素的性别差异性及小家庭涉入应是未来颇具研究价值的课题。