Considering the immense impact of the private sector on globally prevailing social and environmental issues, it is clear that businesses need to undergo fundamental change. As incremental change approaches are insufficient ...

The Vale do São Francisco in Pernambuco, known nationally for its irrigated fruit farming, faces environmental and social challenges arising from the traditional development model. This study analyzes the application of ...

Complementarities between business models in an ecosystem is key to viability but can also result in resistance to change. In research on disruptive firms in housing construction, it was found that they did not synchronise ...

The imperative for a systematic transition from the unsustainable linear economic model to a circular economy is increasingly pressing. While the photovoltaic (PV) industry is playing a pivotal role in expediting the energy ...

This paper presents findings on the paradigmatic nature of business model development emerging from embedded, transdisciplinary research in a primarily linear economic context in the Netherlands. Reflecting on the author’s ...

This empirical study offers insights into the struggles of new corporate ventures to make circularity goals work in practice. Over a period of five years, we followed a circular business model using ethnographic methods. ...