Bocken et al. (2019)Bocken, N., Boons, F., & Baldassarre, B. (2019). Sustainable business model experimentation by understanding ecologies of business models. Journal of Cleaner Production, 208, 1498-1512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018...
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Application of brainstorming or action-research methods to support the redesign of ecologies of business models more generally. Expanding frameworks and processes to develop better business models with a broader positive societal and environmental impact. This requires more research on the design and experimentation of sustainable business models, adopting a system-level perspective. |
Bundgaard et al. (2017)Bundgaard, A. M., Mosgaard, M. A., & Remmen, A. (2017). From energy efficiency towards resource efficiency within the Ecodesign Directive. Journal of Cleaner Production, 144, 358-374. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.12.144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016...
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Continue to expand work on developing standards that define testing methods and verification procedures on resource efficiency. |
Neumeyer & Santos (2018)Neumeyer, X., & Santos, S. C. (2018). Sustainable business models, venture typologies, and entrepreneurial ecosystems: a social network perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production, 172, 4565-4579. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.08.216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017...
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Do sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems share the same components as conventional entrepreneurial ecosystems? What are the formal and informal rules that define participation in sustainable business ecosystems? How can we define success in sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems? |
Hahn et al. (2018)Hahn, R., Spieth, P., & Ince, I. (2018). Business model design in sustainable entrepreneurship: Illuminating the commercial logic of hybrid businesses. Journal of Cleaner Production, 176, 439-451. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.167. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017...
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Study hybrid business models to provide information on the design and management of these organizations. |
Makropoulos et al. (2018)Makropoulos, C., Rozos, E., Tsoukalas, I., Plevri, A., Karakatsanis, G., Karagiannidis, L., Makri, E., Lioumis, C., Noutsopoulos, C., Mamais, D., Rippis, C., & Lytras, E. (2018). Sewer-mining: a water reuse option supporting circular economy, public service provision and entrepreneurship. Journal of Environmental Management, 216, 285-298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.07.026. PMid:28728973. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017...
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Propose studies for the feasibility of large-scale adoption of sewage mining, presented in the paper in a single case. |
Unay-Gailhard & Bojnec (2018)Unay-Gailhard, İ., & Bojnec, Š. (2018). The impact of green economy measures on rural employment: green jobs in farms. Journal of Cleaner Production. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018...
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Expand discussions on the adoption of green policy measures by large dairy farms by inserting as control variables the age of entrepreneurs, gender and other demographic aspects. |
Criado-Gomis et al. (2018)Criado-Gomis, A., Iniesta-Bonillo, M. Á., & Cervera-Taulet, A. (2018). Sustainable entrepreneurial orientation within an intrapreneurial context: effects on business performance. The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 14(2), 295-308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11365-018-0503-x. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11365-018-050...
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Theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between sustainable strategic entrepreneurial orientation in an intra-entrepreneur context and its effect on business performance. |
D’Amato et al. (2020)D'Amato, D., Veijonaho, S., & Toppinen, A. (2020). Towards sustainability? Forest-based circular bioeconomy business models in Finnish SMEs. Forest policy and economics, 170, 101848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2018.12.004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2018.12...
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Exploring the transition from business models to circular bioeconomy in the context of other industrial bases. |
Grinevich et al. (2017)Grinevich, V., Huber, F., Karataş-Özkan, M., & Yavuz, Ç. (2017). Green entrepreneurship in the sharing economy: utilising multiplicity of institutional logics. Small Business Economics, 52(4), 859-876. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11187-017-9935-x. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11187-017-993...
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To investigate the material ecological effects of various sharing models in a holistic way to provide more substance and critical reflections for the green discourse of the shared economy. Additional insights into potential context specificity can be brought by comparative studies of the use of logics in shared economy ventures by entrepreneurial teams in different national, socio-economic and sectoral contexts. |
Kinnunen & Kaksonen (2019)Kinnunen, P. H.-M., & Kaksonen, A. H. (2019). Towards circular economy in mining: Opportunities and bottlenecks for tailings valorization. Journal of Cleaner Production, 228, 153-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.171. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019...
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Explore the business potential for metal recovery from mining waste, considering the identified barriers that need to be addressed to accelerate transformation. |
Lazarevic et al. (2020)Lazarevic, D., Kautto, P., & Antikainen, R. (2020). Finland’s wood-frame multi-storey construction innovation system: analysing motors of creative destruction. Forest Policy and Economics, 110, 101861. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2019.01.006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2019....
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Exploring the role of government institutions in the regulation of the model, development and testing of control policies, through low carbon public procurement criteria and changes in organizational practices of municipalities (reconfiguration between actors and networks). |
Veleva & Bodkin (2018)Veleva, V., & Bodkin, G. (2018). Corporate-entrepreneur collaborations to advance a circular economy. Journal of Cleaner Production, 188, 20-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.03.196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018...
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Examining how business model innovations are able to address the rational and irrational motives of consumers and change their behavior to adopt EC practices (e.g. buy green or remanufactured products, return products for reuse or recycling, rent rather than buy products). |
Manesh & Rialp-Criado (2018)Manesh, S. M., & Rialp-Criado, A. (2018). International ecopreneurs: The case of eco-entrepreneurial new ventures in the renewable energy industry. Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 17(1), 103-126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10843-017-0222-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10843-017-022...
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Future studies may consider other different levels of analysis (company level, industry level, country policy level, etc.). In addition, the importance of the demand side as related to market orientation needs more attention in future studies. Other studies may also address the importance of unexamined environmental factors, such as institutions, energy policy and industry structure, in the entrepreneurial internationalization of new companies competing in this emerging renewable energy industry. |
Havierniková & Kordoš (2019)Havierniková, K., & Kordoš, M. (2019). Selected risks perceived by SMEs related to sustainable entrepreneurship in case of engagement into cluster cooperation. Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 6(4), 1680-1693. http://dx.doi.org/10.9770/jesi.2019.6.4(9). http://dx.doi.org/10.9770/jesi.2019.6.4(...
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Develop the theme aimed at reducing the threats identified, and subsequently addressing the negative consequences of these environments. |
Burzyńska et al. (2018)Burzyńska, D., Jabłońska, M., & Dziuba, R. (2018). Opportunities and conditions for the development of green entrepreneurship in the polish textile sector. Fibres & Textiles in Eastern Europe, 26(2), 13-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0011.5733. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0011.5...
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To explore the benefits made possible through assistance, as well as technical and financial support throughout the process of implementing and monitoring innovations in the textile sector. |
Yoshida et al. (2019)Yoshida, S., Yagi, H., Kiminami, A., & Garrod, G. (2019). Farm diversification and sustainability of multifunctional peri-urban agriculture: entrepreneurial attributes of advanced diversification in Japan. Sustainability, 11(10), 2887. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11102887. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11102887...
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Explore possibilities around the financial and strategic management capabilities of farmers, aimed at entrepreneurship or the maintenance of existing enterprises. |
Tur-Porcar et al. (2018)Tur-Porcar, A., Roig-Tierno, N., & Llorca Mestre, A. (2018). Factors affecting entrepreneurship and business sustainability. Sustainability, 10(2), 452. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10020452. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10020452...
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Exploring the ethical components identified in different contexts, seeking to verify differences and similarities. |
Davies & Chambers (2018)Davies, I. A., & Chambers, L. (2018). Integrating hybridity and business model theory in sustainable entrepreneurship. Journal of Cleaner Production, 177, 378-386. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017...
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Explore to what extent a common business model and strategies around governance, marketing, channel and supply management can ease the tensions associated with multiple ways of capturing value from newly created businesses in practice. |
Demirel & Danisman (2019)Demirel, P., & Danisman, G. O. (2019). Eco-innovation and firm growth in the circular economy: Evidence from European small- and medium-sized enterprises. Business Strategy and the Environment, 28(8), 1608-1618. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bse.2336. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bse.2336...
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Analyze the dynamics of the relationship between circular innovation and company performance associated with business expansion as longitudinal data sets become available. |
Henry et al. (2020)Henry, M., Bauwens, T., Hekkert, M., & Kirchherr, J. (2020). A typology of circular start-ups: An Analysis of 128 circular business models. Journal of Cleaner Production, 245, 118528. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118528. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019...
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Define barriers and success factors for the diffusion of business models in the context of the circular economy. |
Konietzko et al. (2020)Konietzko, J., Baldassarre, B., Brown, P., Bocken, N., & Hultink, E. J. (2020). Circular business model experimentation: Demystifying assumptions. Journal of Cleaner Production, 277, 122596. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122596. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020...
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Experimenting with how to compose teams to test business models guided by the circular economy. |
Lynde (2020)Lynde, R. (2020). Innovation & entrepreneurship driving food system transformation. Physiology & Behavior, 220, 112866. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.112866. PMid:32156557. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2020...
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Evaluate the creation of value for the system by feeding innovations in business models. |