Towards Tool-supported Reflection of Sustainability in Business Models

Sustainability has become increasingly important to business research and practice. Approaches that support fundamental changes in behaviour to act economically, ecologically and socially are required. Modelling and analysing business models can contribute to this, for example by generating new ideas as well as improving and evaluating current businesses. In this PhD Research Proposal, we report the current state and future perspectives of our research, which aims to derive design-relevant knowledge on how to reflect sustainability in business models on (1) a representation layer as well as (2) a tool-support layer.

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