Linking sustainable business models to socio-ecological resilience through cross-sector partnerships: A complex adaptive systems view
A flourishing literature assesses how sustainable business models create and capture value in socio-ecological systems. Nevertheless, we still know relatively little about how the organization of sustainable business models—of which cross-sector partnerships represent a core and distinctive mechanism—can support socio-ecological resilience. We address this knowledge gap by taking a complex adaptive systems (CAS) perspective. We develop a framework that identifies the key strategic, institutional, and learning elements of partnerships that sustainable business models rely on to support socio-ecological resilience. With our analytical framework, we underpin the importance of assessing sustainable business initiatives in terms of their impact on resilience at the level of socio-ecological systems, not just of organizations. Therefore, we reveal how cross-sector partnerships provide the organizational support for sustainable business models to support socio-ecological resilience. By combining the key features of CAS and the key elements of partnerships, we provide insight into the formidable task of designing cross-sector partnerships so that they support socio-ecological resilience and avoid unintended consequences.
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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2021-05
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| Subjects: | sustainability, enterprises, resilience, partnerships, systems, food security, agriculture, climate change, |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109006 https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650320935015 |
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