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Overcoming the Barriers of Sustainable Business Model Innovations by Integrating Open Innovation

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A profitable and renowned business model no longer guarantees a strong position against competitors in the future, as disruptive technologies and new businesses gain momentum. The society, politics and industry consortia shape the market further and their claims are way beyond the economic interests of current industries, but inhere environmental and societal desires as well. This work takes the new balance of forces into account by illustrating the obstacles of a sustainable business model (SBM) innovation and demonstrating how to overcome them by making use of the toolset of an open innovation approach.

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This work is part of the project “Sustainable Consumption of Information and Communication Technology in the Digital Society - Dialogue and Transformation through Open Innovation”. The project is funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation (Volkswagen Stiftung) through the “Niedersächsisches Vorab” grant programme (grant number VWZN3037).

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  1. Business Information Systems, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, 26129, Oldenburg, Germany

    Jad Asswad, Georg Hake & Jorge Marx Gómez

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  3. Information System Institute, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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Asswad, J., Hake, G., Marx Gómez, J. (2016). Overcoming the Barriers of Sustainable Business Model Innovations by Integrating Open Innovation. In: Abramowicz, W., Alt, R., Franczyk, B. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 255. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39426-8_24

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