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Operationalizing leverage points in business model design for sustainable systems change

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Systems change can help to address sustainability challenges and interventions at deep leverage points of a system can be applied to do so. By studying 9 sustainable entrepreneurial businesses, this paper looked at how entrepreneurial firms used their business to intervene at deep leverage points to facilitate systems change. We then proposed how deep leverage points can be operationalized by developing an approach for sustainable business model innovation and how entrepreneurs can consciously target leverage points when designing their business models to influence sustainable systems change.

Source: Proceedings of the Design Society

DOI: 10.1017/pds.2024.132

Authors: Cadence Hsien, Steve Evans

Institutions: Agency for Science, Technology and Research, University of Cambridge, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology

Language: English

Topic: Business Strategies and Innovation

Subfield: Strategy and Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: hybrid

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