Going one's own way: drivers in developing business models for sustainability

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 140, Issue , 2017, Pages 144-154

  Rauter, Romana ^a   Jonker, Jan ^b   Baumgartner, Rupert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business models; Business models for sustainability; FSSD; Leadership; Sustainability; Value creation

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FSSD; LEADERSHIP; SPECIFIC ADAPTATIONS; SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES; SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS; VALUE CREATION;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84929815854     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.04.104     Document Type: Article

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