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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Dentoni, Domenico, Pinkse, Jonatan, Lubberink, Rob
Format:	Journal Article biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	SAGE Publications 2021-05
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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