This research aims to rectify a paucity in current research and investigates the coevolution of traditional and sustainable business models under one corporate roof. Through a paradox lens, firms’ solutions and mechanisms to cope with the paradoxical situations that arise throughout the coevolution are determined and analyzed. This is executed conducting seven case studies of …
This thesis analyses the adoption of New Business Models in multinational corporations.The aim of this research is to develop a tool to measure the extent to which multinationalcorporations adopt New Business Models. Additionally, the measurement tool can be used tocompare the extent to which a multinational corporation adopts New Business Models with othermultinational corporations. This …
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Only decades ago, the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) made its appearance into the field of international business. Although subject to large criticism, the concept of CSR has been widely adopted by the businesses sector. At that time, CSR was dominantly focused on the responsibility of the entrepreneur.In the present time, we experience a …
In this thesis the ‘motivations to invest’ are explored for Business Angels that invested in Traditional Startups and Business Angels that invested in Impact Startups. Further, it is explored how the interaction between Business Angels and Entrepreneurs stimulates the value creation of a Startup and how this is different for Traditional Startups and Impact Startups. …
This paper aims to explore how to build up a sustainable business model (BM) with multiple value creations and to apply this to the context of the Indian Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP). For this, a general BoP BM is created based on four pillars: Customer, Value Proposition, Organizational Architecture and Economic Dimension. Then, the …
This thesis aims to contribute to the lacking scientific literature on new businessmodels, social value orientation and social entrepreneurship via a combination of aquantitative and qualitative research. The research examines how individuals feelabout the desirability and viability of certain alternative business models andwhether an individual’s social value orientation influences his or her beliefs on thesetopics. …
This thesis contributes to the lacking scientific literature on the motivational values of social entrepreneurs, as well as to the newly arising literature on New Business Models. Through interviews with multiple support organizations, social entrepreneurs’ main motivational values are derived and mapped, then visualized within the Schwartz structure of human motivational value types. Furthermore, the …
We currently find ourselves in a period of transition, because our society is unsustainable. This gives rise to the idea that firms should not only focus on profit, but also on the creation of other values. One of the reasons why firms are not yet fully committed to the creation of other values is because …
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Though the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is vastly discussed in management literature little is known about its relation with community development at the local level. This paper makes an attempt to shed light on the current landscape of CSR activities within the automotive industry in India. Based on a multiple case study analysis …
This research investigates the differences in local economic development in developing and developed countries. It used the model by Pennink (2014) which is based on developing countries and applies it to a developed country. The findings are that MNEs and their activities do not seem to play a role in LED; universities have a supporting …