Integrating a business model perspective into transition theory: The example of new mobility services
By Steven Sarasini, M. Linder. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2017
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Abstract Business model innovation is increasingly seen as a means to promote sustainable forms of production and consumption, having been linked to technological innovations in electric vehicles and the circular economy. Business models are an organisational phenomenon that concern focal firms and their networks. However, there is no theory of the firm in transition theory, such that the role of business model innovation in wider transformative processes is unclear. This paper aims to redress this issue by combining a business model perspective with core concepts and constructs from transition theory. We elucidate sources of change and inertia that issue from new and existing business models, illustrating our arguments by focusing on mobility services, which have the potential to radically transform road transportation via new business models. We derive new lines of inquiry that can be used to examine the dynamics of business model innovation in the context of sustainability transitions.
Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Marketing, Strategy and Management
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- What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions (2020, background): “This is despite an emerging seam of literature on different forms of private sector, community and municipal ownership in low carbon energy [9,16], housing [48] and transportation systems [49].”
- Prosumers in the post subsidy era: an exploration of new prosumer business models in the UK (2019, background): “Such models may also be incorporated into mobility-as-a-service models, where prosumers share the use of EVs, which are owned or operated by third party providers (Sarasini and Linder, 2018).”