Sustainability-Oriented Business Model Innovation: Context and Drivers

Moliterni, Fabio

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3038758

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“…It is interesting to observe that the global social and economic transformation has been inducing the NGOs to reconsider its traditional strategies and innovate to become sustainable. Similar observation was made by Moliterni (2017) in context of businesses. The businesses have been undertaking voluntary initiatives and philanthropic activities and started conceiving substantially innovative strategies for its core interests, with a clear commitment to sustainability, to be resilient to contextual shocks, while maintaining the ability to face uncertainty and be competitive in a long-term perspective.…”

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Dealing with Uncertainties During COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from the Case Study of Bombay Mothers and Children Welfare Society (BMCWS), Mumbai, India

Singh

2023

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economie

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The article presents the case study of ‘Bombay Mothers and Children Welfare Society’, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), working for the welfare of the people primarily in the area of health, education and vocational training, in both, urban and rural areas of Maharashtra (India). Following a qualitative approach, the article aims to understand the challenges encountered by the organisation due to uncertainties induced by the COVID-19 pandemic situation in India and its responses. The study shows that innovative business strategy and participatory-public-philanthropy-person (PPPP) model of sustenance helped the organisation to transform it into a ‘sustainable organisation’. Several long-term measures undertaken with its focus on innovation, stakeholders’ engagement for strategic decisions, community participation, collaboration, and business-like behaviour enabled the organisation to deal with the uncertainties in ‘normal times’. The legacy of good work done by the organisation helped it to gain the trust of all the stakeholders involved. During the COVID-19 crisis, the organisation undertook several short-term measures immediately to respond to the situation and received unconditional support from the staff and also from the community. The outcome was organisation and community resilience, which helped them to deal with the uncertainties in normal times as well as emergency/crisis situation. This article developed a framework for the NGO to deal with uncertainties for achieving their mission during a crisis situation like COVID-19. A combination of long-term and short-term measures, and its focus on innovative business strategy and PPPP model of sustenance, is the clear reflection of the entrepreneurial approach adopted for community development and decisions made by the leader of the NGO played critical role. Thus, the study suggests to follow ‘judgement-based approach towards entrepreneurship’ for understanding NGOs’ actions in crisis situation. The findings provide learnings for NGOs, interested in creating sustainable social organisation, and help them to prepare better to deal with uncertainties during a crisis situation.

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Dealing with Uncertainties During COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from the Case Study of Bombay Mothers and Children Welfare Society (BMCWS), Mumbai, India

Singh

2023

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economie

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Local Renewable Energy Development: School Teachers’ Perceptions, Attitudes and Teaching Intentions

2021

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This study investigated factors that might influence teachers’ intention to choose Renewable Energy Sources as an optional module. The research involved 454 Greek teachers working in the archipelagos of the southern Aegean region in Greece, an area with significant potential for the development of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). This potential however remains largely unexploited partly due to local community reluctance towards RES development in the area. Although renewable energy education is considered to be necessary for further RES development, RES are not among teachers’ first choice as an environmental module. We found that, despite teachers demonstrating highly positive attitudes towards RES, they consider local communities to be rather non-supportive of local RES development. A relationship between teachers’ moderate intention to teach RES and teachers’ perceptions of locals as non-supportive towards RES was found. We also found that local teachers feel more competent to teach about RES than non-local teachers. The latter are more motivated to comply with social pressure than locals. These findings emphasize the need for renewable energy education policy makers to take into account local communities’ role in influencing the teaching of RES and to provide teachers with the appropriate skills in order to competently handle potential oppositions.

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Sustainability-Oriented Business Model Innovation: Context and Drivers

Cited by 2 publications

References 68 publications

Dealing with Uncertainties During COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from the Case Study of Bombay Mothers and Children Welfare Society (BMCWS), Mumbai, India

Dealing with Uncertainties During COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from the Case Study of Bombay Mothers and Children Welfare Society (BMCWS), Mumbai, India

Local Renewable Energy Development: School Teachers’ Perceptions, Attitudes and Teaching Intentions

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