The role of technology-enabled business model innovation in achieving carbon neutrality

Fu Jia, Nazrul Islam and Lujie Chen

Technovation, 2025, vol. 147, issue C

Abstract: Technology-enabled business model innovation (BMI) has emerged as a strategic lever for achieving carbon neutrality. Rather than simply layering digital technologies onto existing models, it entails a fundamental reconfiguration of how firms design decarbonisation pathways, construct carbon-intelligent value logic, and respond to increasingly complex and dynamic institutional pressures. This editorial synthesises current advancements in the field from a multidimensional perspective, highlighting how technology-enabled BMI reshapes the temporal logic, ecosystem coordination, and adaptive capacity of organisations operating under carbon constraints. Drawing on the seven articles featured in this special issue, we identify critical theoretical and methodological gaps—particularly the lack of integrative frameworks that can address systemic complexity, embedded accountability structures, and policy–technology co-evolution. We conclude by proposing a research agenda that calls for deeper engagement with dynamic, multi-level mechanisms and encourages future scholars to explore the evolving role of technology-enabled BMI in driving systemic, scalable, and accountable low-carbon transformations.

Keywords: Technology-enabled BMI; Carbon neutrality; Digitalisation; Decarbonisation; Value logic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103305

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