Political participation of businesses: A framework to understand contributions of SMEs to urban sustainability politics

Westman, Linda; McKenzie, Janetta; Burch, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.esg.2020.100044

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“…A relational activity system begins to emerge through precise and scaled characterization of business operations’ practices and outcomes. A transformative business model conceptualizes value generation within and without the organization itself, recognizing the firm as an economic agent inextricably linked with broader capital development and investment processes (Schoenberger 2002 ) and as a social and political actor shaping and being shaped by local agendas, practices, and cultures (Westman et al 2020 ). This type of model will account for the constraints of the social-ecological system and align its operations or resources to accelerate sustainability and resilience-building.…”

Section: Business Models As Activity Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While participatory methodologies and action research facilitate change in communities of practice (Schneider et al 2019b ), the deployment of co-production mechanisms to advance inclusive governance processes (Turnhout et al 2020 ) has yet to meaningfully engage with small businesses (Westman et al 2020 ). The private sector’s role remains obscure in these activities, often plagued by limited transparency or barriers presented by the lack of apparent value for the enterprise, the preservation of proprietary information, and the drive to maintain competitive advantage.…”

Section: Foundational Building Blocks Of Business Models For a Good Anthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While these forms of profit-seeking configurations are ubiquitous, emerging research shows that small- and medium-sized enterprises (for instance) are social and political actors (Westman et al 2020 ), not purely rational economic ones. Furthermore, these important actors, which might employ up to 500 people, generate millions in revenue and have hundreds of supply relationships can have significant influence in shaping local policy and make strategic contributions to trigger systemic changes necessary to steer communities towards the type of sustainable development pathways (Rosenzweig and Solecki 2018 ) needed to find a balanced relationship between society, economy and the planet.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Business models for the Anthropocene: accelerating sustainability transformations in the private sector

Burch

Bella

2021

Sustain Sci

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The rapid pace and escalating severity of climate change impacts have made clear that current incremental approaches to pressing global socio-ecological challenges are insufficient to address the root causes of unsustainable development. This has spurred increasing interest in the dynamics of transformation: the actors, capacities and resources needed to fundamentally shift development paths. The private sector is at the core of essential transformative processes necessary to build a future premised on environmental integrity, social inclusivity, and resilience. The activities of the private sector are structured and driven by their underlying business model, which is at its core a set of assumptions about how a business creates, extracts and delivers value. Dominant conceptualizations of the business model remain a narrow imagining of how business interacts with societal processes and shape development patterns. In this article we call for the conceptualization and design of business models anchored in societal purpose and operating within planetary boundaries, apt for the Anthropocene. We identify five building blocks for business models where transdisciplinary sustainability research can accelerate entrepreneurial activity that fosters desirable sustainable pathways by enabling the creation of new capabilities in support of broader transformational processes. This article seeks to inform (and potentially re-orient the efforts of) transdisciplinary scholars engaging the private sector in the co-production of community-based sustainability and resilience-building initiatives. Likewise, the building blocks provide a guide for businesses who aim to deepen their capacity to build new partnerships, identify, and incorporate new information on climate risk into their operations and develop practices, sequences and procedures oriented toward the sustainable development goals and disaster resilience.

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Section: Business Models As Activity Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Foundational Building Blocks Of Business Models For a Good Anthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Business models for the Anthropocene: accelerating sustainability transformations in the private sector

Burch

Bella

2021

Sustain Sci

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“…Private sector participants both facilitate and hinder sustainability-oriented approaches [6][7][8][9][10] at various scales. Cities tend to integrate sustainable development into their dynamic planning, while urban green space availability is pivotal to urban sustainability advancement.…”

Section: Real-time Urban Sustainability Assessment Tools In Environmementioning

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Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review

Pera

2020

Sustainability

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In this systematic review, I cumulate previous research findings indicating that sustainable urbanism and networked public governance can be instrumental in carrying out extensive sustainability and resilience objectives through steering urban transformations in the direction of sustainability and resilience. Urban analytics data infrastructure, multicriteria sustainability evaluation, and sustainable performance assessment display the intricate network dynamics operational within cities, impacting urban resilience decision-making processes and leading to equitable and sustainable urban development. Throughout July 2020, I conducted a quantitative literature review of the Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest databases, search terms including “sustainable urban planning,” “urban sustainability assessment,” “sustainable urban governance/urban sustainability governance,” “sustainable urban development,” “sustainable/sustainability behavior,” and “environmental performance.” As I focused on research published exclusively in the past two years, only 301 various types of articles met the eligibility criteria. By removing those whose results were inconclusive, unconfirmed by replication, or too general, and because of space constraints, I selected 153, mainly empirical, sources. Future research should investigate whether the assessment of environmental sustainability performance of heterogeneous urban configurations by shared sustainability policymaking through spatial green infrastructure planning and regulations articulate sustainable urban design and governance for the development of innovative performance.

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“…Berdasarkan hasil analisis maka artikel yang digunakan oleh penelitian sebanyak 25 sebagai berikut: (Lu et al, 2020) Journal of Cleaner Production journal 12 (Hossain et al, 2020) Economic Modelling journal 13 (Westman et al, 2020) Earth System Governance journal 14 (Gancarczyk & Gancarczyk, 2018) European Management Journal journal 15 (Bhamra et al, 2018) The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation 16 (Paul, 2020) European Management Journal journal 17 (van Rijnsoever et al, 2017) Technological Forecasting & Social Change Seduced 18 (Ausloos et al, 2018) Physica A 19 (Benhayoun et al, 2020) Technological Forecasting & Social Change 20 (Nisar et al, 2018) Research in International Business and Finance 21 (Chege & Wang, 2020) Journal of Rural Studies journal 22 (Müller et al, 2020) European Management Journal 23 (Woodard, 2020) Journal of Cleaner Production journal 24 (Kottika et al, 2020) Industrial Marketing Management 25 (Knight et al, 2020) International Business Review journal Peneliti telah melakukan pencarian pada 25 artikel tersebut yang memiliki kaitan antara strategy dan UMKM. UMKM yang dimaksud disini sama dengan Badan Usaha Milik Desa sehingga strategy yang digunakan untuk meningkatkan kinerja dari BUMDes sama dengan UMKM.…”

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Peluang Riset Strategi Bumdes Sebagai Dasar Pengembangan Perekonomian Masyarakat: Sebuah Studi Literatur

Ihsan¹,

Irma²,

Ladjin³

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The purpose of this article is to discover the potential for research on BUMDes strategies. This article is considered important because research on BUMDes is still very limited so that it can make a very large contribution to BUMDes research space. Bumdes has an important role in building the economy in the village. However, the condition that occurs is that there are still many conditions of rural community human resources, especially Bumdes officials, who do not have good management skills and financial literacy in managing Bumdes. This research was conducted with a literature study using Leximancer to determine the potential for future research. The results of this study indicate that there are 4 (four) important variables that need to be considered by further research, namely environmental, business, innovation and performance.

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Political participation of businesses: A framework to understand contributions of SMEs to urban sustainability politics

Cited by 17 publications

References 42 publications

Business models for the Anthropocene: accelerating sustainability transformations in the private sector

Business models for the Anthropocene: accelerating sustainability transformations in the private sector

Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review

Peluang Riset Strategi Bumdes Sebagai Dasar Pengembangan Perekonomian Masyarakat: Sebuah Studi Literatur

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