Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 13, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13115804
Keywords
sustainable business model; business model innovation; wine business; Spain; social business model; ecological business model
Funding
- European Community's Horizon 2020 Programme (2014-2020) ENVISION [645791]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (Spain) [PID2019-106185GB-I00]
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The study found that the triple-layered canvas is applicable and useful for micro firms, but the process of designing sustainable innovative business models may be even more important. As a result, a new theoretical model was inferred and proposed to make the process of business model innovation more successful. Non-family firms introducing sustainable business model innovations in their economic, ecological, and social aspects move closer to family firms' distinctive behavior.
This paper addresses two research questions: (1) How do firms innovate their business models to deal with the economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability, and their interconnections? (2) How do managers design the process toward more sustainable innovative business models? Starting from the triple-layered canvas as a theoretical framework, a pattern matching technique is used to compare that theoretical pattern to the empirical pattern observed. The study is based on qualitative methods and data from a Spanish company in the wine sector. The findings indicate that the triple-layered canvas is applicable and useful for micro firms, although the process to design sustainable innovative business models might be even more important. A new theoretical model is inferred and proposed to incorporate the perspective of the process of the business model innovations for sustainability, and to add several relevant aspects to make the process more successful. Besides this, non-family firms introducing sustainable business model innovations in their economic, ecological, and social aspects move closer to family firms' distinctive behavior. Finally, the implications and future lines of research are summarized.
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