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Sustainable business models through service design

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posted on 2016-11-04, 16:00 authored by Sharon PrendevilleSharon Prendeville, Nancy Bocken
In the face of growing sustainability challenges, pressure on businesses to decouple environmental impacts from growth is mounting. New sustainable business models can be a systemic driver for change in industry and the wider business innovation literature suggests that strategic design approaches can be at the heart of business model innovation. One such approach, service design, involves solving problems through a service response, which unlocks value for each stakeholder in a value chain. Nevertheless, the value of service design to sustainable business is still often overlooked. Through a literature review and five illustrative case studies this paper systematically analyses how businesses can leverage service design for sustainable business model innovation. The research highlights how service design can support sustainable business model innovation by uncovering strategic as well as operational synergies between these complementary fields.

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  • Loughborough University London

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Global Sustainable Manufacturing Conference

Citation

PRENDEVILLE, S. and BOCKEN, N., 2017. Sustainable business models through service design. Procedia Manufacturing, 8 (2017), pp. 292-299.

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Elsevier © The Authors

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-07-11

Publication date

2017

Notes

This paper was also presented at the 14th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing (GCSM), Stellenbosch, South Africa, 3rd-5th October 2016.

ISSN

2351-9789

Language

  • en

Location

Stellenbosch, South Africa

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