Business Models for Sustainability

Lenore K. Pennington ()
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Lenore K. Pennington: University of Wollongong

Chapter Chapter 10 in Effective Implementation of Transformation Strategies, 2022, pp 213-260 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Increasing numbers of reports reveal that planet Earth is at significant risk. There are mounting calls to address the damage caused by the unprecedented demand for land, energy and water and environmental destruction, which is attributed to escalating population growth and unparalleled, rising rates of economic growth. Society and its organisations now are expending the Earth’s resources much faster than they can be replenished. Consequently, over the past two decades, sustainability has become an important business issue; growing attention is being paid to organisations’ ecological and environmental performance; and to their impact on the climate and on local and global communities. A number of researchers broadly claim that organisations need to move from Traditional Business Models and adopt Sustainable Business Models, and to deliver a sustainable value proposition aligned with stakeholders’ economic, environmental and social expectations. To achieve this, organisations should expand their perceived stakeholders from customers and shareholders to include all other stakeholders who may be directly or indirectly affected by the organisation’s activities, such as the broader society and the environment. Organisations’ cultures have considerable influence on their attitudes to environmental and social sustainability; their commitment to sustainability; and their environmental and social performance. In order to develop and implement Sustainable Business Models, organisations need to understand their underlying cultural values and develop sustainability-related cultural characteristics. This chapter explains the role of organisational culture and its desired characteristics and discusses actions organisations can take to change their culture. It also discusses steps for embedding sustainability principles across the organisation.

Keywords: Business models; Corporate social responsibility; Corporate sustainability; Climate change; Organisational culture; Organisational sustainability; Organisational values; Sustainable development; Sustainable business models; Sustainable value propositions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-2336-4_10

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