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Sustainable Business Model Design – 45 Patterns
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Sustainable Business Model Design – 45 Patterns

Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Henning Breuer and Lorenzo Massa
Lüdeke-Freund, Breuer, Massa, 2022

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8

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  • Comprehensive
  • Applicable
  • Well Structured

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A trio of expert authors – Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Henning Breuer and Lorenzo Massa – offer insights into how to effectively implement sustainable business model design, a key lever for companies’ ability to contribute to sustainable value creation. The authors showcase 45 “patterns” – proven solutions to sustainability challenges – organized into 11 groups that can help propel next-generation business model design. They outline examples of how companies use these patterns to solve sustainability challenges, illustrate how the patterns work and show how they can be combined or blended.

Take-Aways

  • ​​​​​​Sustainable business model design creates long-term value for companies and society. Forty-five solutions – “patterns” – are organized into 11 groups to help businesses address sustainability challenges.
  • Pricing patterns and revenue patterns help firms set prices and generate earnings from sustainable business offerings.
  • Financing patterns provide methods for obtaining equity, debt and operating capital to fund sustainable business models.

About the Authors

Florian Lüdeke-Freund is a professor of corporate sustainability and academic director of the Sustainability Transformation & Applied Research Center at ESCP Business School Berlin. Henning Breuer teaches business and media psychology at HMKW Berlin. Lorenzo Massa is managing director of the Business Design Lab and professor for strategy, innovation and sustainability at Aalborg University Business School.

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