Towards a Typology of Approaches for Sustainability-Oriented Business Model Evaluation

While numerous studies related to business models are dealing with understanding and representing businesses, limited research focus on the evaluation aspect. However, due to the highly dynamic environment, changing availability of resources and booming digitalization, the evaluation of such models and alternatives is an essential task. Analysing, evaluating and innovating businesses is a multidimensional issue, which poses challenges that need to be facilitated. Thus, in this study, we aim to explore approaches and criteria for sustainability-oriented business model evaluation. Based on an extensive literature review, we obtained 50 articles and determined more than 40 different evaluation methods.

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