Sustainable Business Model Innovation: An Umbrella Review
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Conceptualisation of Sustainable Business Model Innovation
3. Review Methods
4. Findings
4.1. Phenomenon
4.2. Antecedents
4.2.1. Macro-level Antecedents
4.2.2. Meso/Industry-level Antecedents
4.2.3. Micro-level Antecedents
4.3. Consequences/Outcomes
5. Discussion and Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A. Protocol for Search, Selection and Exclusion
- Criteria for delineating the sustainable business model innovation literature:
- Directly and explicitly recognises business model concept AND concepts of innovation AND concepts of sustainability
- Directly and explicitly conducts a systematic literature review following explicit protocols for search, selection, exclusion and analysis of journal articles
- Peer-reviewed journal articles only
- “Reviews” OR “articles” listed as document types in the Web of Science database
- Available in English language
- Studies published from 1990 to 2021.
- Exclusion criteria by theoretical relevance:
- Studies only focusing on the business model concept OR the innovation concept
- Studies not directly connected to the integration of social OR environmental sustainability into a business model
- Paper has another component (e.g. expert survey, interviews, case study) in addition to a systematic literature review
- Studies focusing ONLY on supply chains
- Studies focusing purely on bibliometric studies OR morphological studies OR conceptual reviews without following a systematic literature review
- Book chapters
- Peer-reviewed journal articles unavailable electronically or by other reasonable means.
- Search strategy and scope:
- Full search of systematic literature reviews without restriction to specific journals or period:
- (a)
- Keyword search by topic (TS):((TS= (“sustainab*” OR “triple bottom line” OR “triple layered” OR “TBL” OR “ecolog*” OR “social” OR “circular*” OR “circular economy” OR “closed-loop” OR “cradle to cradle” OR “resource recircularization” OR “green*” OR “green manufacturing” OR “green production” OR “clean*” OR “clean manufacturing” OR “clean production” OR “sustainable development goals” OR “SDGs” OR “bottom of the pyramid” OR “base of the pyramid”) AND TS= (“business model*” OR “business de-sign*” OR “business practice*” OR “business archetype*” OR “enterpr* model*” OR “en-terpr* design*” OR “enterpr* practice*” OR “enterpr* archetype*” OR “organi* model*” OR “organi* design*” OR “organi* practice*” OR “organi* archetype*” OR “corporat* model*” OR “corporat* design*” OR “corporat* practice*” OR “corporat* archetype*” OR “firm model*” OR “firm design*” OR “firm practice*” OR “firm archetype*” OR “venture model*” OR “venture design*” OR “venture practice*” OR “venture archetype*”) AND TS= (“innovat*” OR “value*” OR “transform*” OR “chang*” OR “novel*” OR “new*”))).
- (b)
- Initial search of document type listed as ‘articles’ (performed on 22 January 2021) returned 5,810 articles. Initial search of document type listed as ‘reviews’ (performed on 24 March 2021) returned 502 reviews.
- Download the bibliometric information (title, year, author and abstract) to EndNote reference management software.
- (a)
- Manually read the abstracts and applied the predefined inclusion/exclusion criteria.
- (b)
- Final sample for full analysis included 10 articles and 47 reviews. In total, 57 systematic literature reviews were selected for the full analysis.
Appendix B. List of Systematic Literature Reviews Analysed
Author | Name of the Journal | Title | Sustainable Business Model Innovation Types |
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Alcayaga, Wiener and Hansen [53] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Towards a framework of smart-circular systems: An integrative literature review | Product–service system |
Barth, Ulvenblad and Ulvenblad [40] | Sustainability | Towards a conceptual framework of sustainable business model innovation in the agri-food sector: a systematic literature review | Sustainable business model |
Bluher, Riedelsheimer, Gogineni, Klemichen and Stark [51] | Sustainability | Systematic literature review—effects of PSS on sustainability based on use case assessments | Product–service system |
Bocken, Short, Rana and Evans [11] | Journal of Cleaner Production | A literature and practice review to develop sustainable business model archetypes | Sustainable business model |
Bocken, Strupeit, Whalen and Nussholz [55] | Sustainability | A review and evaluation of circular business model innovation tools | Circular business model |
Boons and Bocken [27] | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | Towards a sharing economy—innovating ecologies of business models | Sharing economy business model |
Bressanelli, et al. [86] | Sustainable Production and Consumption | Circular economy in the WEEE industry: a systematic literature review and a research agenda | Circular business model |
Calabrese, Castaldi, Forte and Levialdi [45] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Sustainability-oriented service innovation: an emerging research field | Sustainable business model |
Caldera, Desha and Dawes [25] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Exploring the role of lean thinking in sustainable business practice: a systematic literature review | Lean and green model |
Camacho-Otero, Boks and Pettersen [68] | Sustainability | Consumption in the circular economy: a literature review | Circular business model |
Centobelli, Cerchione, Chiaroni, Del Vecchio and Urbinati [58] | Business Strategy and the Environment | Designing business models in circular economy: a systematic literature review and research agenda | Circular business model |
Cheng [54] | International Journal of Hospitality Management | Sharing economy: a review and agenda for future research | Sharing economy business model |
Comin, Aguiar, Sehnem, Yusliza, Cazella and Julkovski [79] | Benchmarking-an International Journal | Sustainable business models: a literature review | Sustainable business model |
Curtis and Lehner [26] | Sustainability | Defining the sharing economy for sustainability | Sharing economy business model |
De Giacomo and Bleischwitz [87] | Business Strategy and the Environment | Business models for environmental sustainability: contemporary shortcomings and some perspectives | Sustainable business model |
de Souza, de Mello and Marx [66] | Sustainability | When is an innovative urban mobility business model sustainable? A literature review and analysis | Sustainable business model |
Dhanda and Shrotryia [72] | Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal | Corporate sustainability: the new organizational reality | Sustainable business model |
Diaz Lopez, Bastein and Tukker [44] | Ecological Economics | Business model innovation for resource-efficiency, circularity and cleaner production: what 143 cases tell us | Circular business model |
Dijkstra, van Beukering and Brouwer [77] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Business models and sustainable plastic management: a systematic review of the literature | Sustainable business model |
Engelken, Romer, Drescher, Welpe and Picot [59] | Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews | Comparing drivers, barriers, and opportunities of business models for renewable energies: a review | Sustainable business model |
Fernandes, Pigosso, McAloone and Rozenfeld [73] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Towards product-service system oriented to circular economy: a systematic review of value proposition design approaches | Product–service system |
Galvao, Homrich, Geissdoerfer, Evans, Ferrer and Carvalho [75] | Resources Conservation and Recycling | Towards a value stream perspective of circular business models | Circular business model |
Geissdoerfer, Pieroni, Pigosso and Soufani [9] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Circular business models: a review | Circular business model |
Geissdoerfer, Vladimirova and Evans [6] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Sustainable business model innovation: a review | Sustainable business model |
Goni, Gholamzadeh Chofreh, Estaki Orakani, Klemeš, Davoudi and Mardani [76] | Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy | Sustainable business model: a review and framework development | Sustainable business model |
Guzzo, Trevisan, Echeveste and Costa [52] | Sustainability | Circular innovation framework: verifying conceptual to practical decisions in sustainability-oriented product–service system cases | Product–service system |
Heesbeen and Prieto [70] | Sustainability | Archetypical CBMs in construction and a translation to industrialized manufacture | Circular business model |
Hestad, Tabara and Thornton [47] | Sustainability Science | The three logics of sustainability-oriented hybrid organisations: a multi-disciplinary review | Sustainable business model |
Hofmann [50] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Circular business models: business approach as driver or obstructer of sustainability transitions? | Circular business model |
Hossain [80] | International Journal of Hospitality Management | Sharing economy: a comprehensive literature review | Sharing economy business model |
Hrustek [56] | Sustainability | Sustainability driven by agriculture through digital transformation | Sustainable business model |
Joao-Roland and Granados [67] | Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development | Social innovation drivers in social enterprises: systematic review | Social business model |
Kolk, Rivera-Santos and Rufín [74] | Business & Society | Reviewing a decade of research on the “base/bottom of the pyramid” (BOP) concept | Base (bottom) of the pyramid business model |
Kravchenko, Pigosso and McAloone [81] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Towards the ex-ante sustainability screening of circular economy initiatives in manufacturing companies: consolidation of leading sustainability-related performance indicators | Sustainable business model |
Kuo and Smith [61] | Journal of Cleaner Production | A systematic review of technologies involving eco-innovation for enterprises moving towards sustainability | Sustainable business model |
Lashitew [63] | Journal of Business Ethics | Creating social value for the ‘base of the pyramid’: an integrative review and research agenda | Base (bottom) of the pyramid business model |
Lemus-Aguilar, Morales-Alonso, Ramirez-Portilla and Hidalgo [78] | Sustainability | Sustainable business models through the lens of organizational design: a systematic literature review | Sustainable business model |
Lewandowski [48] | Sustainability | Designing the business models for circular economy-towards the conceptual framework | Circular business model |
Lopes, et al. [88] | Sustainability | Perspective of business models and innovation for sustainability transition in hospitals | Sustainable business model |
Nahi [20] | Organization & Environment | Cocreation at the base of the pyramid: reviewing and organizing the diverse conceptualizations | Base (bottom) of the pyramid business model |
Nosratabadi, Mosavi and Lakner [41] | Foods | Food supply chain and business model innovation | Sustainable business model |
Nosratabadi, Mosavi, Shamshirband, Kazimieras Zavadskas, Rakotonirainy and Chau [43] | Sustainability | Sustainable business models: a review | Sustainable business model |
Nussholz [89] | Sustainability | Circular business models: defining a concept and framing an emerging research field | Circular business model |
Oderanti and Li [62] | International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management | A holistic review and framework for sustainable business models for assisted living technologies and services | Sustainable business model |
Pallaro, Subramanian, Abdulrahman, Liu and Tan [71] | Sustainable Production and Consumption | Review of sustainable service-based business models in the Chinese truck sector | Sustainable business model |
Pieroni, McAloone and Pigosso [8] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Business model innovation for circular economy and sustainability: a review of approaches | Circular business model |
Reim, et al. [90] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Product–service systems (PSS) business models and tactics—a systematic literature review | Product–service system |
Ritter and Schanz [69] | Journal of Cleaner Production | The sharing economy: a comprehensive business model framework | Sharing economy business model |
Rosa, Sassanelli and Terzi [49] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Towards circular business models: a systematic literature review on classification frameworks and archetypes | Circular business model |
Sahebalzamani and Bertella [82] | Sustainability | Business models and sustainability in nature tourism: a systematic review of the literature | Sustainable business model |
Salvador, Barros, da Luz, Piekarski and de Francisco [60] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Circular business models: current aspects that influence implementation and unaddressed subjects | Circular business model |
Salvador, Puglieri, Halog, de Andrade, Piekarski and De Francisco [64] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Key aspects for designing business models for a circular bioeconomy | Circular business model |
Sarja, Onkila and Makela [65] | Journal of Cleaner Production | A systematic literature review of the transition to the circular economy in business organizations: obstacles, catalysts and ambivalences | Circular business model |
Shakeel, Mardani, Chofreh, Goni and Klemeš [7] | Journal of Cleaner Production | Anatomy of sustainable business model innovation | Sustainable business model |
Shomali and Pinkse [46] | Journal of Cleaner Production | The consequences of smart grids for the business model of electricity firms | Sustainable business model |
Thorisdottir and Johannsdottir [42] | Sustainability | Sustainability within fashion business models: a systematic literature review | Sustainable business model |
Upadhyay, et al. [91] | Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management | Investigating “circular business models” in the manufacturing and service sectors | Circular business model |
Appendix C. Protocol for Analysis
- Data organisation:
- Download the PDFs and attach them to the EndNote reference management software
- Import the PDFs to NVivo for analysis
- Organise the articles by case nodes (bottom of the pyramid business models, circular business models, lean and green business models, product–service system business models, sharing economy business models, social business models and sustainable business models)
- Theme identification and coding:
- Articles to be read and coded inductively:
- (a)
- The findings, discussion and conclusion sections of the articles were mainly coded for the analysis.
- (b)
- Initial coding included, but was not limited to, the antecedents and consequences of sustainable business model innovation.
- (c)
- Main themes were broken down into subthemes, and new themes were added as and when they emerged.
- Conduct quality checks by giving equal attention to articles.
- Compare findings across the case nodes using matrix queries and generate tables for analysis.
- Derive the potential avenues for future research.
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Sustainable Business Model Manifestations | Definition |
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Sustainable business model | A business model that aims to increase positive effects and/or significantly reduce negative effects on the environment and society by changing the way in which an organisation and its networks create, deliver and capture value [12]. |
Base (bottom) of the pyramid business model | A business model that aims to simultaneously alleviate poverty and increase profitability by developing radical innovations to cater to the needs of poor and other vulnerable communities [13]. |
Circular business model | A business model built on the principles of circular economy that aims to achieve circularity across the business model [14]. |
Lean and green business model | A business model inspired by the lean philosophy, which aims to maximise customer value by minimising waste [15]. |
Product–service system | A business model with tangible products and intangible services jointly aimed at maximising customer satisfaction and fostering sustainability [16]. |
Sharing economy business model | A business model facilitating temporary access to an underutilised product by mediating between resource owners and resource users via a sharing platform [17]. |
Social business model | A business model that aims to achieve social goals by generating tangible and intangible social value and increasing the relational and mutual interactions among market participants [18]. |
Integrative business model | An integrative business model that balances all three aspects of sustainability [10]. |
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Sinkovics N, Gunaratne D, Sinkovics RR, Molina-Castillo F-J. Sustainable Business Model Innovation: An Umbrella Review. Sustainability. 2021; 13(13):7266. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137266
Chicago/Turabian StyleSinkovics, Noemi, Denanjalee Gunaratne, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, and Francisco-Jose Molina-Castillo. 2021. "Sustainable Business Model Innovation: An Umbrella Review" Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7266. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137266
APA StyleSinkovics, N., Gunaratne, D., Sinkovics, R. R., & Molina-Castillo, F.-J. (2021). Sustainable Business Model Innovation: An Umbrella Review. Sustainability, 13(13), 7266. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137266