TY - JOUR
T1 - Business models for digital sustainability
T2 - Framework, microfoundations of value capture, and empirical evidence from 130 smart city services
AU - Bencsik, Barbara
AU - Palmié, Maximilian
AU - Parida, Vinit
AU - Wincent, Joakim
AU - Gassmann, Oliver
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation (project number 407740_187381). We also acknowledge financial support from Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency, and the Research Council of Norway
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s)
PY - 2023/3/3
Y1 - 2023/3/3
N2 - The emerging research stream on digital sustainability examines how digital technologies enable the creation of environmental and social value. The need to finance the creation of such value calls for a business model perspective that combines value creation and value capture. To extend the digital sustainability literature in this regard, we adopt a microfoundations perspective and argue that the configuration of value creation influences the decision of users to pay for a value proposition or not, which in turn affects organizational value capture. Applying a crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis to 130 smart city initiatives in Switzerland, we develop a three-dimensional framework of business models for digital sustainability. The framework comprises 12 theoretically possible business model types, representing distinct business model configurations. We contribute to the digital sustainability and the microfoundations literatures by analyzing, explaining, and classifying the diversity of digitally enabled business models in the context of smart cities.
AB - The emerging research stream on digital sustainability examines how digital technologies enable the creation of environmental and social value. The need to finance the creation of such value calls for a business model perspective that combines value creation and value capture. To extend the digital sustainability literature in this regard, we adopt a microfoundations perspective and argue that the configuration of value creation influences the decision of users to pay for a value proposition or not, which in turn affects organizational value capture. Applying a crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis to 130 smart city initiatives in Switzerland, we develop a three-dimensional framework of business models for digital sustainability. The framework comprises 12 theoretically possible business model types, representing distinct business model configurations. We contribute to the digital sustainability and the microfoundations literatures by analyzing, explaining, and classifying the diversity of digitally enabled business models in the context of smart cities.
KW - 512 Business and Management
KW - Business model
KW - Business model configurations
KW - Configurational analysis
KW - Digital services
KW - Digital sustainability
KW - Microfoundations
KW - Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)
KW - Smart city
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85149382035&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113757
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113757
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85149382035
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 160
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
M1 - 113757
ER -