Successfully creating and scaling a sustainable social enterprise model under uncertainty: The case of ViaVia Travellers Cafés

Dobson, Kieran; Boone, Sarah; Andries, Petra; Daou, Alain

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.09.010

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“…Rather specialized, washing machines were represented with three papers [16,57,58]. Sector-specific studies included online education [59], university campuses [60], travel [61], water filtration [62], electric motors [58], and fastmoving consumer goods [63]. Areas of technical innovation include Internet of Things (IoT) [16], smart grids [47], smart cities [50], and smart collection [51], suggesting the need to experiment at the intersection of technology and business models (see also [20,64]).…”

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“…Others highlight slowing the loop: Bashir et al [63] look at refill and reuse; Lieder et al [57] compare buy-back, leasing, and pay-per-use; Weissbrod and Bocken [22] refer to slowing the loop for fashion; and Torrieri et al [53] refer to repurposing monastery buildings as a way of direct reuse. Most papers have an environmental focus, whereas Täuscher and Abdelkafi [59] also consider the economic viability of the business model, and Dobson et al [61] integrate social aspects. Specifically, the payper-use business model [65] seems to be popular and is addressed in Lieder et al [57], Sousa-Zomer et al [62], and [16,66]).…”

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Business Model Experimentation for the Circular Economy: Definition and Approaches

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Business model experimentation has been identified as a key driver for business competitiveness but is underexplored in the sustainability and circular economy spheres. What is business model experimentation for the circular economy? This study follows a two-step approach: a literature analysis followed by a qualitative practitioner study. Based on these, circular business model experimentation is defined as an iterative approach to develop and test circular value propositions in a real-life context with customers and stakeholders, starting with a shared goal. It involves rapid learning based on empirical data to provide evidence on the viability of circular value propositions. Iterations involve increased complexity of experiments. There is a learning focus on initiating wider transitions, such as transforming consumer behaviours for the circular economy. We visualise the emerging research landscape, including research streams from business, transitions, engineering, and design. Practically, we illuminate how practitioners view the concept and current experimentation tools and approaches.

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“…This SV offers a literature review on social entrepreurship (Macke et al, 2018) and insights on the potential influence of social entrepreneurs on industry-wide dynamics through the introduction of innovative SBM (Olofsson et al, 2018). Other studies making the link between social entrepreneurship and SBM are of more practical nature, and provide specific recommendations about resource mobilization, scaling, internationalization and resolving strong tensions (Davies and Chambers, 2018;Dobson et al, 2018;McDermott et al, 2018). Another important topic for SBM scholarship can be borrowed from social entrepreneurship, viz.…”

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“…Each paper's main ideas are summarized below. Dobson et al (2018) studied the scaling and internationalization of a social enterprise called ViaVia Travellers Caf e. The authors stressed the fact that SBMs expand in the context of uncertainty, and thus contextual studies of SBMs are absolutely required. They argued that, under uncertainty, it is not necessary to have a proven SBM before scaling it up.…”

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Embracing the variety of sustainable business models: A prolific field of research and a future research agenda

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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Investigating the benefits of sustainable business models for our societies is an important and timely topic. This Special Volume contributes to current research by exploring a variety of sustainable models in use around the world. The accepted articles provide an overview of the various organizational forms, management mechanisms, sustainability solutions, challenges, theoretical lenses and empirical evidence, i.e. fundamental elements in the study of sustainable business models. In this introductory paper, the thirty-seven articles included in this Special Volume are presented, organized in four approaches to sustainable business models: 1/the generalist approach, 2/the technology-based approach, 3/the entrepreneurship and innovation approach and 4/the behavioral approach. In conclusion, avenues for future research are formulated, with a call for solid theory building, more sophisticated research methods, focus on the interplay of sustainable with existing conventional business models, and systemic consideration of the role of governments in advancing sustainable business models.

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“…For instance, Roome and Louche [26] highlighted phases organizations follow to meet a sustainable business model, while Upward and Jones [28] drew a roadmap to draft a highly sustainable BMfS, in their "ontology of strongly sustainable business model". Looking towards practice, other research has identified reasons that a BMfS fails [29] or how a BMfS finds success (i.e., [30][31][32][33]).…”

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Business Models for Sustainable Finance: The Case Study of Social Impact Bonds

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Business models for sustainability (BMfS) are relevant topics on research agendas, given their orientation toward sustainability issues. However, traditional versions of these models are often ill-equipped at solving complex social problems. Cross-sector partnerships for sustainability (CSPfS) have been recognized as a new paradigm that mitigates the failure of traditional models. Impact investing, and social impact bonds (SIBs) in particular, represent an interesting field of research in innovative business models for sustainable finance, even though the literature does not consider SIBs within this broader field. We propose an exploratory study based on qualitative methods aimed at conceptualizing SIBs within the framework of BMfS and understanding how SIB collaboration varies across social sectors and geographical areas. Our study identifies three different models of SIBs characterized by the different degrees of collaboration between actors: (i) SIB as a fully collaborative partnership; (ii) SIB as a low-collaborative partnership; and (iii) SIB as a partially collaborative partnership. Our findings are useful to policy makers and practitioners involved in the SIB design, suggesting that a fully collaborative SIB model may stand a better chance of achieving the expected social impacts.

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Successfully creating and scaling a sustainable social enterprise model under uncertainty: The case of ViaVia Travellers Cafés

Cited by 43 publications

References 32 publications

Business Model Experimentation for the Circular Economy: Definition and Approaches

Business Model Experimentation for the Circular Economy: Definition and Approaches

Embracing the variety of sustainable business models: A prolific field of research and a future research agenda

Business Models for Sustainable Finance: The Case Study of Social Impact Bonds

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