Managing Green Business Model Transformations

Covering sustainable business model transformations with the goal of improving or sustaining a firm's profitability, this book offers and analyzes illustrative examples from management practice, and proposes a general management framework for green businesses.

Environmental sustainability creates both tremendous business opportunities and formidable threats to established companies across virtually all industry sectors. Yet many companies tackle the issue in a superficial or passive way, rather than considering fundamental changes to their existing business models. By ignoring the opportunities of Green Business Model Transformations, companies exclude themselves from a large variety of potential means to create economic value. In addition to ordinary product and process innovations, they can change the rules of the game within an industry towards environmental sustainability.
Green Business Model Transformations, however, are challenging ventures: New, green business models with all their uncertainties and inherent complex systemic characteristics are difficult to design, assess, and implement successfully, particularly in the context of established companies that often entail complex structures and considerable inertia.
As a result, there is a great need for guidance in management practice. This publication addresses this need with a general approach to Managing Green Business Model Transformations that is based on a broad theoretical foundation, illustrated by many real-world examples from various industry sectors.

Comprehensive framework that is not only based on numerous interviews with management practitioners, but also theoretically substantiated Holistic approach, consideration of different fields of research (organisation theory, strategic management, system dynamics, sustainable development, business models) Practical company examples from various industry sectors (food, transport, automotive, building technology, chemicals, etc.)

Inhalt

Part I Introduction.- The Emergence of Green Business Models.- Purpose of this Work and Research Approach.- Part II Theoretical Foundation of Green Business Model Transformations.- Environmental Sustainability in Business.- The Business Model Concept as a Unit of Analysis for Management Science.- Towards a Taxonomy of Green Business Models.- Organisations, Change, and Innovation.- Part III Towards a Practical Management Approach.- A Survey on Green Business Model Transformations.- Managerial Implications of Survey Results.- Managing Green Business Model Transformations A Framework for Management Practice.- Part IV Conclusion and Outlook.- Conclusion and Outlook.