Year: 2019
Type: other
Abstract: Following recent calls from sustainable business model and transition research, we establish the link between both fields.We systematically integrate existing knowledge on business models into the well-established multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions and identify three roles of business models and their respective impact on transition dynamics: (1)As part of the socio-technical regime, existing business models hamper transitions by reinforcing the current system's stability; (2) as intermediates between the technological niche and the socio-technical regime, business models drive transitions by facilitating the stabilization process of technological innovation and its breakthrough from niche to regime level; and (3) as non-technological niche innovation, novel business models drive transitions by building up a substantial part of a new regime without relying on technological innovation.We illustrate our findings with examples from the German energy sector and discuss our contributions to (sustainable) business model and transition research.
Author: Bidmon, Christina Melanie
Institution: Aarhus University
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4412312592