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ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT
Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 36-52Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1086026615590882
Keywords
brewing; beer; microbreweries; sustainability; localisation; scale; multinational brewers; life cycle analysis; business models
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- Economic and Social Research Council [not_applicable] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [not_applicable] Funding Source: UKRI
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This article defines business models for sustainability as contested and contextual, and provides a novel framework in terms of the architecture of the business, its principles and components for the analysis of such models. With this framework, a preliminary comparison using the engaged scholarship methodology is made between microbreweries and large multinational brewers. It is concluded that defining and determining comparative sustainability performance based on different business models results in ambiguities and contradictions that are not readily resolved, but a key determinant in the broad definition of business sustainability in the brewing sector is the degree of localism that the business model exhibits.
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